Sky News catches up with actor Joe Gilgun, whose semi-autobiographical comedy Brassic has just returned for season two.
Loosely autobiographical, like his character, Vinnie, Gilgun has bipolar disorder and is unflinching with his descriptions of how depression affects his life.
"If I can be compared to Harold Bishop in any way, I'm happy. That was a real return to form that, our Harold coming back." "Yeah, tonnes of dead whale. Amazing! Out of the blue, no one knows where it came from. Well, they say they don't…"We clumsily move on from whales in the jungle to dancing, as Gilgun has a routine to celebrate Vinnie's aliveness in the first episode of series two. Think backing dancers, a rainbow of pastel colours and some serious step-ball-changing."In a club or a pub, you will not see me dance.
"I think I probably would have wanted to veto it… but the team around me are experienced and always do a great job at reassuring me that we're not going to make a bunch of t**** of ourselves. And we didn't! It's bloody great! "I'm bipolar and ADHD and I do isolate a lot," he says."When I get depressed, I cut myself off, jobs and stuff like that.
Like everyone else, he says, there's"days where I'm thriving, days where I'm miserable". But he follows routines to keep his head straight.
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