As she reprises her role in The Full Monty for a TV sequel, Lesley Sharp talks about what has changed – and what has stayed the same – about Britain since the original 1997 film 🎙️ Helen_R_Brown interviews Lesley Sharp
reminds me that was the year that Tony Blair’s election ended 18 years of Tory rule. At the time, she felt that things were finally going to get better for the working-class communities who – like the Sheffield steelworkers celebrated in the film – had been left high and dry by the collapse of Britain’s heavy industry.’s recession comedy fed into the cultural optimism of the period, turning its £2m budget into a whopping £200m profit and becoming the UK’s highest grossing film to date.
Although he had resisted many lucrative offers for a sequel, Beaufoy finally found himself angry enough about the lack of progress to return to his old characters and explore how life had treated them in a. Sharp – who was nominated for a Bafta after playing Co-op cashier Jean in the original and who reprises that role in this series – was thrilled to discover that “while the film focused on the wit and warmth of those male characters, the new TV version gives equal space to the women”.
But, chatting easily over Zoom from her London home, Sharp stresses that “although on one level Jean has been living the aspirational dream, the job isn’t what she’d hoped it would be. Instead of spending her time supporting teachers and children in the classroom, she’s having to manage a building which is falling down around her ears and is no longer under the aegis of the local council.
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