“We didn’t really think about this during the rehearsal process, but recently I’ve been thinking about Boris Johnson and his time as prime minister, and how… we laughed about him serving those journalists tea on his driveway, and people said, ‘he’s so funny, he’s such a clown’. But look what he did during his time in power, with the parties and all this kind of stuff. And actually, what he was capable of were things that were really fundamentally evil.”
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