'Back to Life's' Daisy Haggard on taking humiliation comedy to new levels, plus free Frazzles
Daisy Haggard was in a pitch meeting with Harry Williams of Two Brothers Pictures, the producers of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Fleabag,” when she realized that a door of opportunity might be closing. “I knew that Harry wanted to make something with me, but all of my [ideas] were being rejected,” Haggard says. “We drank some wine. Then I kept giving Harry more beer and ham croquettes. Then it all suddenly fell out of my mouth. I just said, ‘What if...
“Back to Life,” which debuted Sunday in the U.S. on Showtime and received wide praise when it first aired this year in the U.K., stars Haggard as Miri Matesson, who is living with her parents in the tiny seaside town of her youth after 18 years away as a prison inmate. The coastal community where she grew up isn’t ready to embrace her as having paid her debt — hostile graffiti is
Recently, Haggard spoke by telephone about “Back to Life,” her early days as a poet and why she chose to do this 5 p.m. interview while standing outdoors in Peckham Rye park in Southeast London. “At 5 minutes to 5 p.m. my [Our conversations] were less about the time in prison, more about about the life afterwards details. “What did you want to eat?” “What did you want to do when you first went home?” “What sensations did you want to feel?” “What was the most annoyingly difficult thing? Getting a bank card?” Or that feeling that you have something written on your face in a small town. It felt like everyone was looking at you — even if they weren’t.
I know. My friends tease me. They go, “Daisy, you had one shot. You could’ve been wearing Prada, dressing in glamorous, amazing outfits but you walk around in dungarees with the worst fringe and no makeup. You idiot!” But I’m very happy to be that idiot. Your father is Piers Haggard, a stage, film and TV director. Your grandfather was actor and poet Stephen Haggard. Your great-great-great uncle was adventure author H. Rider Haggard. What did coming from a creative family teach you about making something from nothing?
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