The Mr Bigstuff co-stars speak to Yahoo UK about their new Sky comedy, and why it was essential to explore what it means to be a man in the show.
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00:00Obviously, the show's very comedic, but it kind of touches on some serious subjects as well.
00:03You've got grief and obviously Glenn not being able to get up as well.
00:07I wondered why did you, in particular, Ryan, want to look at that from a comedic angle?
00:10And Danny, what do you think of the take on it?
00:12The erectile dysfunction or the other stuff?
00:14Both.
00:14The both.
00:15Well, I wanted to write something about partly...
00:20I mean, it's a comedy show and I want it to be a funny thing,
00:23but I also wanted to write something that was about broken families
00:27because in my family, we lost my mum a few years ago
00:30and it sort of spun everyone off in the sort of unexpected thing about,
00:34you know, you lose someone and it's like the worst thing ever,
00:36but then there's this new unexpected thing,
00:38which is like, that was the linchpin that held you all together.
00:41So you're all fractured apart.
00:42And so I suppose in a way, I wanted to write this thing that's about like families,
00:46a kind of fantastical way that they might come back together,
00:49these two people who have lost their matriarch and their dad as well.
00:52Yeah.
00:53And also you were sort of delving into the masculinity thing
00:56and the most emasculating thing is if a man can't get his winkle hard.
01:00Well, supposedly.
01:02But I mean, it's mad that it is because it's a mental thing.
01:04Of course it is, I know, but it's almost like, oh God, I'm not a man.
01:07I can't, I can't, you know, get my, I can't, it won't function.
01:13So it's important because it's, you're right,
01:17actually in the grand scheme of things, it's f***ed with being masculine,
01:20but you feel like if that's not working, then, you know, like, what are you?
01:25You know, what have you become?
01:27But, but I think, I think we dealt with it in the right way, you know,
01:30because, well, it's interesting, again, plot twist.
01:33What actually does get your winkle hard, young Glen?
01:36You know, it's, you must watch the show to realise what it is
01:40because it's a f***ing belter.