Felicity Ward on playing the first Female Lead in The Office Report by Mccallumj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00You look absolutely gorgeous, by the way.
00:01You look absolutely gorgeous.
00:02Would you behave?
00:03Would you behave?
00:04Excuse me.
00:05This dress is everything.
00:06Thank you very much.
00:07You're a trailblazer.
00:08How does it feel to be called a trailblazer?
00:10Oh, I don't know.
00:11Once you get to my age, I've been called everything under the sun, so I don't believe much of it.
00:18How does it feel to be here, though, at an event that's celebrating women?
00:21Because we don't have enough of them, do we?
00:23Well, I mean, we have enough of them.
00:25They're just not on TV.
00:28We're actually more of the population, but that's by the by.
00:31You know what I love about this show is that it's the first female lead for an Office remake.
00:38This is the 13th remake.
00:41But it's just incidental that the character is a woman.
00:45There's nothing like...
00:47It's not an empowering role.
00:49It's bad for feminism, but it's so nice being...
00:54When Liz Truss got into power, I thought, finally, we've made it that women can be mediocre, too.
01:01That we have been here long enough and in positions of power that we can do a terrible job.
01:08That's what feminism is for.
01:10You make me laugh so much.
01:12I meant the event celebrating women, not how many...
01:15We do have quite a lot of women in the world, which is good.
01:18But it's great that we've actually got an event that's celebrating women in this industry,
01:22because I feel like we need more of those types of events.
01:24Do you know what's great?
01:26I think about it like with panel shows.
01:28There was a long time that there was no women on panel shows in comedy or just one.
01:32And what you miss out on when there's another woman in the room is just the look.
01:38Just the nod.
01:39Like the hand that goes out and you go, you know...
01:42And someone's like, yeah.
01:43And so when you've just got a room full of women or a panel full of women,
01:47it's lots of like, ah, yeah.
01:49And there's a shorthand and there's an intimacy and a nuance that you don't get
01:52if there's just one woman representing all women.
01:55And you're the first female lead in the Office franchise.
01:58I mean, that's pretty iconic.
02:00Does it come with a bit of pressure as well?
02:02Yeah, sure.
02:03Yeah, I've lost a bit of weight.
02:08Look, there's going to be...
02:10There's a pressure being the lead in any sitcom.
02:13I'm going to burp, because I'm a lady.
02:17You stifled it, didn't you?
02:19You stifled it there.
02:20I think I pushed it down.
02:21It'll come out the other end.
02:23Also, I'm a stand-up.
02:25I'm not an actor, so I'm very bad at these.
02:28No, you're very good at these, actually.
02:30I think it's a breath of fresh air, I would say.
02:33Well, we'll see how this clips up.
02:37It's just a clip of me going, I'm going to burp.
02:39No, it's chaos and I love it, because I'm chaos as well.
02:42I feel like we're feeding off each other here.
02:44It's all I have.
02:45Chaos and great tits.
02:47It's all I've got.
02:48That's my new motto.
02:50Somebody steal that from me.
02:51That's my new motto.
02:52My gift from me to you.
02:53And see, this is why we love women.
02:55That's right.
02:56So, pressure-wise...
02:57Oh, yeah, pressure.
02:58Yeah, it's going to be pressure, but it's also loads of fun.
03:01You know, like, people are going to have...
03:03I've tried to tell myself other people's opinion
03:05is none of my business, so they will have their opinions
03:08and people will love it and people will not like it.
03:10And good?
03:14Good. Fine.
03:15Well, if it's half as funny as you are right now,
03:18then I'm sure it's going to be hysterical.
03:20Thank you for bringing so much, like, lols and laughs.
03:23Oh, mate!
03:24Thank you so much.
03:25I love it. Chaos and...
03:26Chaos and great tits.
03:27Thank you very much.
03:28Thank you very much.
03:29Lovely to meet you.
03:30What was your name again?
03:31Jodie.
03:32Hi, Jodie.
03:33Nice to meet you.