Jessica Stevenson was born in Lewisham and brought up in Brighton. As a teenager, Jessica joined the National Youth Theatre Company. She later teamed…more
Hugh Bonneville, Olivia Colman and Jessica Hynes star in a new six-part series for BBC Four. With such a steller cast it's god to be good, right? read more
Jessica appeared at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2008 in the closing filmFaintheart , directed by Vito Rocco, co-starring Ewen Bremner and Eddie Marsan.
(on "Spaced")Jessica: It was important to have it reflect absolutely and intimately our world and experiences and our friends and ourselves. And to have that kind of authenticity it needed to be kind of grubby and sort of . . . real. Because that was our world.
Jessica: To be honest, when the second series of Spaced finished I was quite lost. Simon and Edgar were moving on and wanted to do a film and I think Edgar wanted to write it so that meant they didn't really want me to go along with that. They wanted to write a zombie film, which I would have been very happy to write, but I just think they had ideas about what they wanted to do next and they didn't involve me.
(on the difference between British and American comedy)
Jessica Hynes: I think it's aspiration versus inspiration. American culture and humour is aspirational in terms of who the people are - they're all very affluent. British humour doesn't rely on that, it's more inspirational.