Inside No. 9's Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith open up about bringing their dark comedy to an end after a decade, their next projects and their secret episode with Lee Mack
From playing murderous Cambridge professors and cat burglars to killer magicians and call centre employees, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith have taken on all kinds of twisted characters throughout Inside No 9’s run.
Reece, 54, adds, “These scripts have been in our heads for a long time, so it’s nice when you finally get to do them. It probably hasn’t dawned on us yet that it’s the last one.” “We didn’t know we’d be doing it for 10 years,” says Reece. “Every series was a surprise to us. We’ve done so many different things – a lifetime of ideas. We just wish it was Inside No 2, then we’d have been done years ago!”
Fans can also expect an episode set in an escape room, one shot with a Ring doorbell and the series premiere, in which Steve plays a drag queen trapped on the London Underground. “You should have seen people looking at him as we filmed,” Reece laughs. Looking back on a decade of hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heart-warming episodes, the pair will always remember catching their fans by surprise with the secret episode in the last series that starred Lee Mack as himself.
“It’s so hard to do anything that surprises viewers these days, but it did feel like we managed to land it and it hadn’t gotten out. That was a real thrill to do.”
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