In conversation with Janis Pugh, Annabel Scholey & Louise Brealey | Chuck Chuck Baby | Interview

At the Edinburgh International Film Festival I had a lovely talk with writer and director Janis Pugh, actress Annabel Scholey and actress Louise Brealey about their beautiful "Lesbian-Chicken-Factory-Musical", as Louise called it in the interview. TRAILER:    • Chuck Chuck Baby Official UK Trailer   ABOUT JANIS PUGH Janis Pugh is an award-winning writer/director. She grew up in North Wales surrounded by dynamic, working-class women. Their tangible force of energy and humour is something she reflects in her work, which explores the beauty and brutality of life. The inclusion of music and song is also a significant part of her work. Her most recent work is the feature film Chuck Chuck Baby. Other films include Blue Collars and Buttercups which won the Kodak Creative Filmmaking Award and which screened at Locarno, Tampere and many more. Her operatic short Butterfly was nominated for a Welsh BAFTA. ABOUT ANNABEL SCHOLEY Annabel Scholey has had leading roles in a number of prestigious television drama series including THE SPLIT (BBC), THE SALISBURY POISONING (BBC) and most recently, the acclaimed THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT (BBC). Theatre credits include ANTIGONE at National Theatre (Ismene), Lady Anne in RICHARD 111 directed by Sam Mendes for Old Vic, and Ophelia in Jonathan Miller’s HAMLET. As well as playing Joanne in CHUCK CHUCK BABY, her feature film roles include Maddie in WALKING ON SUNSHINE (Vertigo Films). ABOUT LOUISE BREALEY Louise Brealey (HELEN) was one of the most popular stars of the international TV phenomenon, SHERLOCK. Her portrayal of pathologist Molly Hooper gained her a massive worldwide fan-base. Last year she was seen as the human love interest in BRIAN AND CHARLES, the BAFTA-nominated and Sundance-winning hit film about a lonely man and his seven-foot cabbage-eating robot. She has just wrapped on SUCH BRAVE GIRLS, a new pitch-black comedy about a dysfunctional family directed by Simon Bird for A24, Jesse Armstrong’s Various Artists Ltd and BBC 3, and she can currently be seen on Netflix as Pamela Joplin in LOCKWOOD & CO. Other notable television roles include serial fantasist Cass in both seasons of Channel 4’s cult comic psychodrama BACK, and dangerous professor-cum-cult leader Jude McDermid in hit Scottish BBC thriller CLIQUE. Louise is also a highly respected stage actress. Her work includes lead roles in HUSBANDS AND SONS at the National Theatre with Anne-Marie Duff, CONSTELLATIONS in the West End, MISS JULIE at The Citizens, three lead roles in TROJAN WOMEN at The Gate, and playing Sonya in Sir Peter Hall’s renowned production of UNCLE VANYA.