It’s early morning in New York — I’m calling from London — and we casually jump on the topic of murder. After making Sisters, “It’s just a regular occurrence.” She’s playful, but she’s also serious. “I’m so angry. I get fueled by it sometimes. I don’t know what it is or where it’s coming from. But yeah, I often felt like killing someone.” she paused. Afterthought: “By the way, this isn’t something I’d go forward with.” The punchline is slyly delivered with perfectly comical timing. For Hogan, who has created several definitive TV her comedies over the past 15 years, being funny is natural. She says, “In my normal life, I feel like even the way I structure my sentences tends to be kind of comedic.”
Bound by a fierce work ethic (she only took a “four minute lunch break”, Catastrophe co-writer Rob Delaney complained), Hogan’s keen eye for the subject gave us hits like: motherland When pulland hidden gems like the 2007 series Angelo’sIn , she plays one half of a couple on Bobby on the Beat. Shocked by her partner’s admission that she masturbates twice a day, Hogan’s PC said: one of the causes. ”
Hogan, now 52, has spent years laughing off the fragile egos of men on screen. bad sisters, she’s trying to skewer it more literally. The show is about five Irish siblings, four of whom are already trying to “rescue” her one, Grace (Anne-Marie Duff), from her coercive husband. as they call him.
Hogan, who plays the eldest daughter Eva, is a 2012 adaptation of the Belgian TV show, Clanand the husband in question is played by a Danish actor cress bangHis John Paul is a monster. On Christmas morning, he handed his wife a glass of champagne and tried to dissuade her from joining him in the annual celebratory dip in the sea. Now think about it. ”
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Sharon Hogan, Eve Hewson, Eva Verthisl, Sarah Greene in “Bad Sisters”
Previous bad sisters, Hogan began writing something about women with older children who started again in their fifties. In 2005, after dating for six months, she married businessman Jeremy Rainbird. Catastropheabout a short transatlantic flight that leads to a pregnancy that leads to marriage between two people who barely know each other.
In 2019, Rainbird and Horgan amicably divorced and continue to co-parent two teenage daughters, Sadhbh and Amer. Hogan tried to write about it, but he found it premature. The old adage “comedy is tragedy plus time”. It really is. ”
Is it hard to start over in your 50s? “Less is like the unknown, so I think you’re less afraid. I had it all, I had to learn how to enjoy my own company, I could manipulate myself if I wanted to. I don’t want to, but I think I have those tools if I need them.”
In private, her life may have been chaotic, but professionally she was on fire. After producing hit shows in the US, she now has a deal with Amazon and her Apple. divorce When Shining veilstarring in Dennis Kelly’s Bafta Award-winning lockdown drama, togethershe and James McAvoy play spouses who can’t stand each other’s appearances. motherlandAlso, her portrayal as a harassed middle-class parent won Bafta this year. Hogan has moved away from writing it, but it’s still her baby.
The new dilemma she faces is how to write about older children. “Sometimes it feels like it’s fair game when you get inspiration from someone in your life—a friend, a work colleague, an ex-lover, an ex-husband. .
Hogan was born in London, but his parents moved back to his mother’s native Ireland at a young age to start a turkey farm. Her father is New Zealander, but she identifies as Irish. “There was a time when I would describe myself as a Londoner because I think it’s a very specific type. And I haven’t lived in Ireland for a long time. The more I take, the more time passes, and it all feels more and more connected.”
When Hogan was in his twenties, he dropped out of art college in Dublin, moved to London, failed to get into any drama colleges, squatted, worked at a job center in Kilburn for six years, then returned to college.
During that time, I had some time as a backup dancer in my friend’s boyfriend’s band. When her Svengal wannabe sent her to Switzerland and said he was going to make her a star, she got so spooked she hid Hogan and her sister’s passports.When she bought a bass guitar — “I decided to be Kim Gordon. [of New York punks Sonic Youth]I think there was one lesson, I was just acting as a fan… the idea of being on stage, focusing on you like that… I’m a really shy person. ”
Again, this is not at all surprising. Hogan’s writing has the subtlety of being a shy, observant, introverted, action-driven, weird hybrid. No wonder she chose Smith’s song as one of hers on a deserted island disc. (Morrissey is a classic of that type.)
Her life-changing moment came when she met Kelly, an aspiring actor, at a bar in Camden.They started writing together and the result was pull (2006-9), a sitcom about three women who share an East London apartment. Hogan and Kelly’s “wrong” 20s provided them with an endless source of embarrassingly hilarious true stories about sex, relationships and cohabitation, and the show won a Bafta nomination and ran for two seasons. However, the period after the cancellation was difficult for Hogan.
Kelly got the Golden Goose by adapting Roald Dahl’s Matilda Hogan said, “I was always busy, I was always working. But I couldn’t find that next chapter. And I was watching Dennis write Utopia When Matilda, and I started saying “What the hell!?” True, I was jealous of him. he knows it ”
then came Catastrophe, written with her co-star Delaney, ran for four seasons, earned them a buffa, and made Hogan famous in the United States.It led to her HBO comedy divorcestarring Sarah Jessica Parker, which predated Hogan’s own relationship upheaval, but working in the United States for five months away from her family left her with severe anxiety. Physically, I had a heart-like change, and I was lying in bed wondering what the hell was going on. bad sisters, filmed in Ireland and the UK, was very attractive. “I want to be close to my family and my daughters. I want to see my parents more regularly. I didn’t want a long, lonely, long-distance job.”
Producing a series for Apple, the richest company in the world, she was able to assemble her dream cast, including Eve Hewson and Brian Gleeson. And writing about a family of five siblings was no easy task. Hogan has her two sisters and her two younger brothers, including Irish rugby legend Shane Hogan.
“When I was younger, I lived with women who were in bad relationships. They felt stuck. It was a very terrifying experience for many families.I felt really guilty just knowing this was happening.But if it’s entertainment, then in 10 episodes it’s going from wall to wall. Just don’t be miserable, it doesn’t work that way, and life doesn’t.”
yes bad sisters is a comedy, a family drama, and a thriller. “There’s some really dark and gory subject matter in there, but it’s also a little slapstick when it’s at its most ridiculous.”
I wonder if I put what I don’t like about men into my husband’s personality. “I poured in some of the things I hate most about people,” she corrects me.original character [in Clan] It was a monster, but I wanted a man who would be attractive to my wife.People like him look up to him… he’s a community goer, a loving father and his husband, but when you cast someone [like Bang] Who would be attractive in a role like this is tricky. I just wanted to make sure he came across as a clown as well, to take away his dangerously sexy.
Her TV output has been consistently entertaining, but she also has this emotional depth. Catastropheher father told her he always thought she’d “get there” — writing straight-up television that felt powerful — but she tells me she doesn’t. It’s not the way I see the world… The reason the moment was so intense is because a minute ago you were smiling.” Chris Harvey, The Telegraph © Telegraph Media Group Limited 2022
T.he first Four episodes of “Bad Sisters” are streaming on Apple TV+.The show continues every Friday
