“It Was Just So *Fucking* Bleak”: British Multi-Hyphenate Daisy May Cooper Talks Life On The Breadline Before ‘This Country’, Re-Exploring Those Difficult Years In The BBC/HBO’s ‘Rain Dogs’ & Cracking The U.S.

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In recent years, the global TV landscape has been shaken up by some of the most talented, British female auteurs to have braced this planet.The likes of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Michaela Coel have wowed audiences around the world, lending new credence to the term “authenticity” and forging disruptive shows that have little influence from outside forces.Perhaps a less obvious candidate to fit within this bracket is BAFTA-winning This Country creator and star Daisy May Cooper, but with the BBC/HBO’s Rain Dogs, BBC One’s Am I Being Unreasonable?

heading to Mipcom and a second season of Fox’s This Country remake Welcome to Flatch hitting screens soon, Cooper’s U.S star is on the rise and the Coel/Waller-Bridge comparisons are percolating.The 35-year-old is as down-to-earth as they come.

Hailing from the small British town of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, she speaks to seemingly everybody as she would to a friend in the pub but her talent comes across from the first second.“From the moment you meet her it’s obvious she has something different,” says lauded His Dark Materials writer Jack Thorne, who is exec producing Am I Being Unreasonable?

and whose wife Rachel Mason is Cooper’s agent.He recalls first being impressed by Cooper when she rocked up to the 2018 BAFTAs wearing a Swindon Town (her local soccer team) dress, before duly scooping gongs for Best Scripted Comedy and Best Female Comedy Performance.“I looked at her [at the BAFTAs] and just thought to myself ‘Oh yeah that’s Daisy,’ says Thorne. “Breath-of-fresh-air comic talents don’t come along very often.”But to say Cooper’s career has been plain sailing to date would be understatement of the century, and she speaks candidly about her time on the breadline in the years