I Don't Do The Whole

For A Culture That Has Such A Problem With Death, We Seem To Deal With It In A Quite Bizarre Way. We See People Shot, Killed And Blown Up, And We Find It Funny And Sexy And All Those Things. But, The Reality Of It Is That Every Day People Die, And People Are Really Sad And They Grieve And They Go Through A Really Difficult Process With It.

I Think The Story Of 'alice In Wonderland' In A Way Is A Reminder That Life Is Frightening, It Can Shift On You At Any Moment.

But Obviously, Things Have Changed In Many Ways Since The '50s, When The Show Is Started, In Terms Of Sexuality, And How Much Access We Have To Images Of It And Information About It. But, The Same Problems Always Apply. It Doesn't Matter Whether We Know A Lot More About Sex Now Or If There's A Lot More Access To It. The Same Problems Of Intimacy, Of Dealing With Other People, Of Connecting And Being Vulnerable With Other People, Which Is What The Show Is Ultimately About, Still Applies Now, I Think.

We Knew, Very Early On, That We Had To Be Very, Very Clear That Directors Need To Speak To Actors And Actresses And Be Very Clear About What Is Expected, And Find Out Whether They're Comfortable With That. Wardrobe Has To Be In Place. There Have To Be Checks.

It Has To Be Absolutely Believable. It's Also Going Between Images And Scenes With Nudity And Sexuality That Would Be Seen, In Conventional Terms, As Kind Of Sexually Exciting. It's Up Against Things That Are Much More Medical And Gynecological, And Notoriously We, As A Culture And A Society, Have Some Issues With That Kind Of Thing.