The Baker Street Babes Podcast
Transcript, Episode 27: Amanda
Abbington
Recorded 29/04/12
Released 27/05/12, Transcribed
by Amy, Curly, & Ardy
Amanda: What’s a heart shake? I’ve never had that. Will it be an actual
heart?
Kristina: It better be. Only a few
people know that we’re doing this today, and they’re like, “Have fun! Say hi
for me!”
Amanda: That’s so sweet!
Kristina: All the American-based Babes
are like “We hate you, but we love you! Give her a hug for us!” So, America is
hugging you.
Amanda: I love Americans, America, I think you’re lovely. Oh that’s so
nice…Oh, and Martin sends his love. He says hello and sends his love.
Kristina: When do they actually finish up?
Amanda: End of July. Yeah, it’s a long old stint. They’ve been there
since…a year and a half! It’s hard, but we’ve said now that anywhere he goes,
we’re going to go with him because it’s really tough. We didn’t think it would
be that hard. And also, he’s going to bed when I’m getting up, so you miss each
other. Just mentally, you miss each other, because he’s ready for bed, and I’m
starting the day. So it’s a bit, “Good night!”, “Hi!” It’s a bit wearing.
Kristina: I know. I used to live in Japan. It’s sort of like the same
time difference. I’m getting home from work and my mom would be like, “Hi!” and
I’d be like, “I’m so tired! I’m not talking to you right now!”
Amanda: Yeah, and that’s what it’s like. It’s tough. So we’re going to
rethink it if he goes. There’s some stuff going on in LA. Not before January.
That’s when the third season [of Sherlock]
starts filming here.
[Clapping]
Kristina: Happy noises!
Amanda: I know! Going on in our house as well, it is! So, when did all
this start?
Ardy:
About a year ago.
Kristina: Yeah, our one-year anniversary is next month.
Turk: Is it?
Ardy:
It’s some time in May.
Kristina: So it’s almost been a year. Basically, I did a radio show in
college, and I was like, I love podcasts. I want to do a podcast! So, I had all
these friends who were Sherlock Holmes fans, and I made this Twitter list—I
just called them the Baker Street Babes,
and someone else was like “that sounds like a group of something!” And I was
like…Speaking of, do you want to do this with me?
Amanda: It’s really good. Martin’s well aware of it, just so you know.
Kristina: Oh, is he? Jesus.
Amanda: But it’s very good. He loves it. He first showed this stuff to
me last year. Somebody told him about this thing called tumblr. We didn’t know
what the hell Tumblr was, but someone said, “You should look on this,” so we
did, and one day, he just said to me, “You’ve got to see this because there are
people putting my body on, like, the heads of cats!” And I said ok, and then he
said “And Ben’s like a cat, and I’m like a hedgehog, and they’re comparing me
to hedgehogs, and it’s quite cute!” And we would just sit there, laughing. And
that’s how we kind of got into the Baker Street Babes and that sort of thing. It was great. The are very aware of
it. Sue’s a big champion of this sort of thing.
I talked to Mark
Gatiss yesterday. He was going into a script meeting with Steven [Moffat]. Very
exciting. It’s going to be good. I think they anticipate this being better than
the second series.
Ardy: How?
Amanda: I know!
Ardy:
That’s what we said after the first series as well.
Amanda: Yeah, I know! It’s like—How could you top that? Oh, you did!
Kristina: Oh, you did it quite well, actually.
Ardy:
That worked out quite well for you, there.
Amanda: So what do you think about the film—Jude Law and Robert Downey
Jr.?
Kristina: I think they’re entertaining. I don’t think they’re very
canonical at all, but they’re good for explosions and for gratuitous banter and
everything. I don’t dislike them.
Ardy:
They’re good fun. I don’t think they’re in competition.
Amanda: No, I don’t think Ben and Martin are worried about them much.
Kristina: No, I don’t think they should be. Yes, they get a bunch of money and publicity because it’s a movie
and it’s Robert Downey Jr., but when you compare the quality, there’s never any
contest.
Amanda: No, I think so. I think this one’s got a better Moriarty. Y’know,
Andrew Scott, you’d be hard pushed to get better than Andrew Scott. He’s just
my hero. I’m finding it very hard because Martin and Andrew are nominated for
the same BAFTA. I don’t know who I’m going to support.
Turk:
Another actor that I’ve been a fan of for years is Joseph Mawle [also nominated
for the same award].
Amanda: He’s with my agent, and I think he’s amazing. He’s deaf isn’t
it?
Turk:
Yeah. I first saw him playing Jesus in The
Passion, and I’ve not just quite got over that.
Amanda: I think it’s a tough category this year. But when I told
Martin—because he didn’t know he’d been nominated—I rang him, and I said,
“You’ve been nominated in the BAFTA agai!” He went, “Is Andrew in the category?”
and I went, “Yes!” He went, “Fuck!”
[Laughter]
Kristina: Yeah, the roller coaster of emotions that was the BAFTA
nominations.
Amanda: I’m still really cross.
Kristina: [Regarding the show not being nominated for a BAFTA for drama or
miniseries] It doesn’t make any sense. On the merits of it as a drama—it broke
all the records on iPlayer! It makes no sense. Blargh! I was so angry!
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