This April Julia Davis is taking us on a trip, in her new Sky Atlantic comedy Camping which Julia has both written and directed. Camping is about a group of couples who have come to Dorset for a birthday camping trip.
The middle class calm is broken by the arrival of party girl Faye – played by Julia Davis – who joins newly separated Tom and takes the holiday in a whole new direction.
Julia talked to the Independent about choosing to play the sexy character,”if this was the US, they wouldn’t let me play the part. They’d say, sorry, we want someone younger.” It is the very funny Vicki Pepperdine who is playing the more Jill Tyrell-esque character Fiona, “That’s the part that people expected me to play” says Julia.
She also discussed her show Nighty-Night and mused over whether the BBC would make something so dark now “Sometimes I do find myself thinking, ‘Oh Jill would say this kind of thing,’ and it’s interesting to imagine what she’d be like now – but I doubt they’d make something like that these days…It does feel as though things have moved more towards the mainstream,
“Obviously I’m getting by, but I don’t know what the future will be like, and there are times when it is quite scary. Would something like Brass Eye get made today? Probably not, but I don’t know why. I think it might be considered bad taste or too weird. Jam certainly wouldn’t.”
Fortunately Julia is still making programmes and we have no doubt that Camping will have her signature comedy style.
Camping will air on Sky Atlantic on 5th April.
