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The Big Picture In Season 3 of The Outlaws, the group of strangers from different walks of life who were forced together to complete their community service are moving on with their lives. But when one of their own makes a very dangerous discovery, they realize they can only really trust each other and work together to prove Rani’s innocence.
STEPHEN MERCHANT: Well, of course, as soon as I read that Donald Trump might have to do community service, I was like, “Wow, the New York spinoff of the show would be incredible," partly because one of the original things I remember reading was about celebrities who’d done it, which is why Lady Gabby was in there. I’d read that Naomi Campbell, the model, had done community service, Boy George, the singer, had done it, and I think Hugh Grant had done community service.
Are you someone who feels satisfied with where you’ve left these characters and where you’ve left their story, or are you never satisfied? How do you feel when you close the book on something? And I really love the relationship I have with Gabby’s character. They’ve become roommates and they’ve become these unlikely buddies, and now she’s asking him to help her become a mother. Those are storylines that you could never imagine, and you just naturally follow in the development of the characters, and also what the actors bring to it. If Eleanor and I hadn’t had chemistry, we perhaps wouldn’t have taken it in that way, but we did.
MERCHANT: I appreciate you saying about the TMI because part of the fun was this idea that she’s of a younger generation and that she’s a TikToker. There’s a generation of people that live their life on social media and bear their soul about everything, whereas my character is a more uptight, repressed person who’s perhaps never had that confidant. In a way, her willingness to share every secret with him has opened him up a bit as well, and I like that aspect.
Since you started making The Outlaws, Jessica Gunning has gone on to huge success with Baby Reindeer. What did you see in her, as the cast was originally coming together? What was it like to work with her over the seasons and to have her in the writers’ room too? MERCHANT: Absolutely. That’s always the pleasure of TV, bringing groups of people together that wouldn’t otherwise associate. Even in The Office, these people only know each other because they’re in the same workspace. They wouldn’t necessarily be friends, beyond that. That’s one of the great pleasures of what you might call Precinct TV, where there’s a precinct, or the bar in Cheers, or whatever.
MERCHANT: It’s not a surprise. It’s just that I feel like, why not? Every step of the way, it seemed like it was never going to quite work, so yeah, let’s do another one. I’m a fan of the American version and I’m a fan of Greg, and I’m excited to see what he does. When you make a show, you don’t get to enjoy it in the way an audience does because you’re too excited. So, the idea that there’s going to be this show in this world that we helped create is really thrilling to me.
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