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Rock & Chips\u00a0– Interviews<\/h2>\n

We’ve seen the title change<\/h3>\n

We know the air date for Rock & Chips – BBC1, Sunday 24 January, 9pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

We know we would love a series of this comedy drama featuring our favorite charatcters, Del Boy, Trigger, Boycie Jumbo Mills Denzil and others. The 90-minute special will feature a “bittersweet love story” and aims to shed new light on the lives of the Trotter family.<\/p>\n

What about some interviews.
\nWell the BBC have provided us the following treats:<\/h3>\n

Rock n Chips: Q&A with Kellie Bright<\/h2>\n
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Rock n Chips: Q&A with Kellie Bright<\/p><\/div>\n

Best-known in TV for her roles playing prisoner Cassie in Bad Girls and starring as Ali G’s less-than-glamorous girlfriend Me Julie in Ali G Indahouse, Kellie Bright jumped at the chance to pop into a girdle and put the red lippy on for Rock n Chips! \u00a0Here she talks about playing Peckham’s answer to Brigitte Bardot.<\/p>\n

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Tell us about Joan Trotter…<\/strong><\/p>\n

“My word for Joan would be vivacious. She just has this huge love of life. Being poor in the Sixties really meant being poor but Joan manages to get through it with a spring in her step and a smile on her face. It sounds odd but when I think about the Sixties I think about it in black and white, but Joan would be in technicolour! She’s a dreamer but she’s also very practical and would never dream above her station or drop her responsibilities and run off into the sunset.”<\/p>\n

And she’s quite a looker…<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Joan likes to make the best of herself and she’s that mum that all your mates fancy! At that time women of her age were kind of middle-aged and dowdy \u2013 sort of old before their time \u2013 but Joan has managed to hold on to her youth, even though, when we meet her, it’s just starting to fade. She would never want anyone on the street to see her less than immaculate \u2013 she wouldn’t even put the bins out without her red lippy on!”<\/p>\n

Was it fun to get dressed up for a change?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It was amazing fun. I had a fantastic make-up designer and I got to look fabulous every day! It took some time to create Joan on a daily basis and the team worked really hard but, when you’re doing a period piece, it really helps to have that element as it helps you to step out of your own life. As soon as I stepped into Joan’s structured underwear \u2013 I had to wear a girdle everyday \u2013 it made me stand differently and feel completely different and that really helped.”<\/p>\n

What was it like being Del Boy’s mum?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I just loved playing Joan and the fact that she was a mother to these two iconic characters was part of her charm. I tried not to worry too much about what other people would have wanted her to be like and just tried to stay truthful to John Sullivan’s writing and play her as I saw her. I loved playing a mum and exploring her closeness with Del Boy. She was very young when she had him and they’ve sort of grown up together and, in her world, he’s the thing that she’s most proud of. And Del is proud of her too. He’s not embarrassed that all his mates fancy her, he celebrates the fact that she’s gorgeous!”<\/p>\n

What was it like working with Nick Lyndhurst?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I just think he’s brilliant \u2013 I mean really brilliant. To come back to work with the same group of people you’ve worked with for 20 years and create something new is just extraordinary and I never felt for one minute when I was working with him that I was looking into the eyes of Rodney \u2013 there wasn’t a single glimmer. I have worked with some amazing people but Nick is just the most brilliantly-talented comic actor I’ve ever worked with and I just hope that together we’ve done justice to John Sullivan’s writing and helped create this love story.”<\/p>\n

How did you feel being part of the Only Fools And Horses heritage?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I am hugely grateful and honoured. I grew up with Only Fools And Horses, I’m a huge fan and I am just ecstatic to be embraced as part of that family! Getting the phone call from my agent to say that I’d got the part was the most extraordinary feeling. I was on the streets of Edinburgh while I was working at the festival and was waiting for the call. When my agent rang she just said ‘is that Mrs Trotter?’ and it was the most unbelievable moment \u2013 I was really, really chuffed!”<\/p>\n

Rock n Chips: Q&A with Nicholas Lyndhurst<\/h2>\n
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Rock n Chips: Q&A with Nicholas Lyndhurst<\/p><\/div>\n

He’s won countless awards, achieved huge viewing figures and is loved by millions for his portrayal of lanky Rodney Trotter, but Nicholas Lyndhurst was originally reticent about being involved in another project with the Only Fools team \u2013 that is until he read the script. Here he talks about how Rock n Chips was cooked up.<\/p>\n

You have had huge success playing Rodney Trotter. Were you always destined to play the man thought to be his father, Freddie Robdal?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We’ve all seen prequels and spin-offs, and sometimes they work and a lot of times they don’t, so I wasn’t too sure that I wanted to be involved. I held off making a commitment until I’d seen a script and when it arrived I was really quite scared to start reading it. But when I read it, I knew I’d kill to do the part. It’s just a brilliant piece of writing.”<\/p>\n

This film is set in 1960, did you know much about this era?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“John Sullivan started talking about this idea about nine years ago when he had an idea during the filming of Only Fools. The Sixties is John’s era, his heyday, and this film reflects his interest in the Sixties so much. I was born in 1961, so it’s obviously before my time but I read up a lot before we started filming. We think we all know the Sixties \u2013 about The Beatles and London, the Swinging Sixties \u2013 but this is before all of that \u2013 an era of deprivation when there was still rationing from the war and bomb sites hadn’t been cleared. John has written about it so warmly and it’s a fascinating piece. Viewers are in for one hell of a show even if they have no interest in Only Fools And Horses.”<\/p>

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