Sarah Hadland has told The Telegraph that Miranda, the show by Miranda Hart on which she plays Stevie, will be back “in some format”. Although we don’t know what format this is, as Sarah would only reveal “there will be something.”
The last we saw of Miranda she was marrying her crush Gary on New Year’s Day 2015. There has been some speculation over a Miranda film, last year Miranda Hart suggested a good film plot: “It would be interesting to see them [Miranda and Gary] with kids – I’d like to see Penny as a grandmother, see which way she’d go with that.”
Sarah reminisced in The Telegraph about the sitcom’s beginnings: “I remember when Miranda said she wanted to push me off the stool. I was thinking, ‘What? Is this going to be funny?’ I thought the audience must be rigged. They were going nuts for it.”
It wasn’t just the studio audience that surprised Sarah: “I was shocked that teenage girls loved it. Stevie and Miranda are not cool. We’re 40-year-old women acting like kids. It turned out that they were desperate to see someone on TV that was as awkward as they felt.”
Sarah also noted the strong female presence on the Miranda set: “In Miranda we had a female director, producer, exec, floor manager. I can’t imagine it would have worked as well any other way.”
The actress went on to share her thoughts regarding performing in comedy: “In my real life I like to look nice but in comedy I would say actresses have less vanity because your prime goal is to be funny. There is no question, a section of actresses are employed for their looks and I can only imagine that must be absolutely horrendous because that is a commodity that is inevitably going to fade.”
Sarah will be starring in The Moonstone, part of the BBC’s #LovetoRead campaign, which starts on BBC One on Monday 31st October at 2.15pm.
