LOCKDOWN’S A CATASTROPHE!
SHARON Horgan says her eldest teenage daughter has begun to remind her of a possessed character in horror movie The Exorcist, such has been the level of her anger during the Covid19 pandemic.
The creator and star of Channel 4’s hit show Catastrophe spoke for overwrought parents everywhere when she told US talk show host Seth Meyers: ‘I don’t know how they’re doing it or how I’m doing it.’
Ms Horgan, 49, is locked down in her London home with her two daughters, aged 16 and 12, and admits to walking on eggshells around her eldest, who is angry her normal life has been taken away.
‘My teenager is 16 and she’s just so angry. I mean they’re both so angry their lives have been taken away from them. So, there’s a whole Linda Blair [who played Regan in The Exorcist] level of teenage anger in the house!
‘Because we’re together all the time, she’s had to find new things to hate about me. The other day she got really angry with me because my eyes are too close together! In an argument she said, “I can’t look at you! Your eyes!”
‘My 12-year-old’s grand. She’s home-schooling as well… iPad and her iPhone with everything on there.
‘She’s set it up in the kitchen beside the fridge. You know the scene in Goodfellas, when they’re in the prison and they’ve so much time on their hands and Paulie’s cutting the garlic with a razor? That’s my daughter, except with hot dogs and mangoes!’
Ms Horgan stars alongside Kristin Scott Thomas, 59, in Military Wives, a comedy based on the true story of a group of women who come together to form a choir while their partners are serving in Afghanistan. The Meath native admitted to feeling intimidated when she first met The English Patient star.
‘I never met her and I was genuinely a huge fan, so I was really intimidated by her initially,’ she said. ‘I was even intimidated by her on-screen, because we are doing virtual red carpet and all these press interviews via video-link to promote the film.’
Military Wives won’t be the only chance to see Ms Horgan on our screens in the coming weeks. She is also starring in Irish rites-of-passage comedy Dating Amber, which will be streamed on Amazon Prime next month, while a second series of This Way Up, the acclaimed Channel 4 show in which Ms Horgan and Aisling Bea play a pair of Irish sisters living in London, has also been confirmed.
Fionn O’Shea, who plays Jamie in Normal People, stars alongside Ms Horgan in Dating Amber, and she conceded that she has also caught the bug of the television sensation that has become the cultural touchstone of the lockdown, although she found the sex scenes a tad uncomfortable.
‘It is so good!’ she said. ‘But I had to fast-forward teenagers having sex. And I don’t know if it is because I have teenagers myself but I felt dirty watching them!’
‘My teenager is 16 and just so angry’