Tanya Reynolds and Melissa Saint share the secrets behind their I Hate You auditions

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From the creator of Friday Night Dinner, Channel 4 has brought us a hilarious new sitcom starring Sex Education’s Tanya Reynolds and Melissa Saint. Starring as Charlie and Becca – two best friends navigating the world in their 20s – the pair deliver wild in-jokes, insane bickering and weird fights.

From pick-pocketing a police officer, to a crazy key game, Tanya and Melissa have captured all the weirdness (and silliness) that falls between best friends.

And it turns out that there was just as much ‘silliness’ off screen as there was on camera, starting from their auditions. Speaking about her audition, Melissa revealed: ‘The tape that I decided to send off, I’d burnt like two tapes and decided I was happy with those, and my friend and I were like, “Shall we just do one where you eat as many of these rice krispies as possible,” and I was like, yeah, let’s do that. ‘It was like, I’ve done this thing already but now I’m just going to do it for the “lols” really, and then I finished that one and was like, “That’s the tape. ”‘Speaking about her audition tapes, Tanya added: ‘I feel in my experience, when you have a tape and you don’t do many takes, only one or two, it just feels right, those are the jobs you’re so much more likely to get. ‘But the ones for me, where I do hundreds of tapes and I get stressed, those are the ones I’m just not going to get. ‘I always know that if I’ve done five tapes or more, I almost know that I’m not going to get that job, whereas this felt natural, I am this character, I don’t feel like I’m having to stretch myself, to go somewhere I don’t already live, it just felt very natural. ‘In the tape I for some reason was getting ready to go out, and [creator Robert Popper] always talks about how I was.