Michelle Gomez has been making Funny Women HQ laugh with her outrageous characters for years. We loved her as Sue White in 'Green Wing' and as Miss Pickwell keeping Jack Whitehall's character Alfie in check. Now Michelle Gomez has teamed up with Wildseed Studios to create a new character to crack us up and help those who are cracking up. Heather is ready to dole out some medicine to the American public.
Wildseed Studios said: "‘Heather’ is an outrageous, obnoxious, wicked, comedy character, a self-appointed agony aunt who is dosing up the USA with her peculiar brand of medicine…watch the problems roll in, and Heather take them down one hilarious tongue-lashing, (or rather piece of advice) at a time."
We caught up with Michelle Gomez to talk abouther new character Heather, Shakespeare and historical characters in need of some therapy…
Funny Women: How did the character of Heather come about.
Michelle Gomez: I was feeling a bit homesick and she turned up on my doorstep with a nice thermos and a packet of digestives and I asked her in. Before I knew it she was pulling out a banana and a pair of surgical gloves?
FW: Do you sneak a lot of your own opinion into Heather’s advice?
MG: I'm hopeless at giving advice, I'm much happier just telling people what to do. Less passive aggressive, more aggressive aggressive.
FW: You play a lot of women who refuse to conform, such as Sue White in Green Wing and Isobel Pickwell in Bad Education. Why are strong female characters so comic?
MG: There's something inherently funny about watching the self righteous reach for a ladder climb to the top of it and try get to over themselves.
FW: Speaking of strong women in comedies, you played Katherine in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew in 2008. Do today's comedy characters measure up to Shakespeare's?
MG: There's nothing funny about Katherine, poor old love was a battered wife. Nothing measures up to Shakespeare, he said it all and we've just been repeating him ever since.
FW: You’re currently filming the new series of Psychobitches with Rebecca Front, does this mean Mary Queen of Scots be getting another dose of therapy?
MG: Yes she will, and let's hope this year she stays off the Meth. She will be joined by Florence Nightingale, Ingrid Bergman, Wallis Simpson and Margaret Thatcher. I'm sporting a bit of a Do at the moment, so I won't need a wig for Thatcher.
FW: Who are the women in comedy that you most admire?
MG: Francis De la Tour and Maggie Smith. They are the Goddesses of comedy.
Meet Heather…
You can watch more of Heather's American Medicine HERE!
