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Pauline McLynn joined us for a live chat on 15th July, 2002. You can read the full transcript of this online event below
Sarah: Who gives you the giggles when you're filming TV to Go?
Pauline McLynn: Everybody! I'm bad for giggling. I think in series 1, you can see me laughing DURING the filming of them! We do a lot of goofing around, which worried the producer and director for a while, cos we used to go around slapping and mock-kicking one another - it doesn't take much to make me giggle... Mackenzie Crook would do drawings of fish with legs waving out of the page, and at that stage you wouldn't know whether to laugh or cry... Stabbing my thigh with a darning needle would sometimes help to cure the giggles. Myself and Hugh had to do stuff for episode 1 where two people were desperately trying to fall in love in an office, but they were working on sexual harrassment guidelines, and had to be really PC with one another. I couldn't look into his face - Hugh was being really serious, and he said it was close to real acting, and it really got to me!
Jo: As both you and Ardal O'Hanlon still live in Ireland, do you ever meet up with him socially?
Pauline: Hardly ever actually because I think in our 'wacky showbiz lives' you really hardly see anyone unless you're working with them. I've spoken to him on the phone - my husband's a Leeds fan and so is Ardal. He's got three kids now, so I'm worried that if I go there he'll get me to babysit! I'm not a Leeds fan myself... Quite a few stars live in Dublin - I could probably give you a bus tour. There are always one or two of the U2 lads knocking about the place - but the Irish will generally ignore you if you're famous...
Alex:: Do you feel you've been typecast as Mrs Doyle?
Pauline: I hope not! I get to do a few parts in TV To Go that aren't too like Mrs Doyle. There's a mad old lady I do, but that's just cos we love her. I don't mind really, because in TV To Go I do get to do different characters. But the trouble is, I'm not getting any younger! It takes less and less make-up... I can't see myself playing Mrs Doyle again, but I think of all the characters in Father Ted, she is the one that could possibly be in a spin-off!
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