
Home Front Romance: Robina and Sir James
Clip: Season 2 Episode 4 | 2m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Mark Bonnar and Lesley Manville discuss the budding romance between Sir James and Robina.
Mark Bonnar and Lesley Manville discuss the budding romance between their characters, Sir James and Robina, in Season 2.
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Home Front Romance: Robina and Sir James
Clip: Season 2 Episode 4 | 2m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Mark Bonnar and Lesley Manville discuss the budding romance between their characters, Sir James and Robina, in Season 2.
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I understand you've been expecting me.
I'm delighted to meet you.
I hope this is the right house.
It is Mrs. Chase, isn't it?
- Mark Bonnar?
Oh, he's great.
I'd never worked with him before, always wanted to work with him because I've really admired him from afar for many years.
I was really pleased when they cast him, also, he's a bit younger than me, so it makes me look really good.
- She's great fun.
I really love Lesley.
I love working with her, and my God, she is good.
You up your level a little bit when you start working with people like that, you sort of go, "Oh, oh God.
I better be good.
I better be good.
Do your best."
But no, it's great, I've really enjoyed working with Lesley.
- Sir James, we haven't known each other very long, but I would think that you should know by now that I'm not one of those silly child women who can be patronized and appeased with the promise of treats.
- [Mark] We were just shooting a scene, which is probably Sir James's first kind of romantic approach to her.
- He's giving her a picnic in the garden and you know, he's pulling all the stops out and says, "Oh, isn't this nice, you and me?"
- Now I see it all.
You're a black marketeer.
- You mustn't trust me, not an inch.
You've too much to protect.
- Well, I mean, he compliments her and he says he's enjoying being with her, and he's put on this lovely spread for her, you know, so he's kind of trying to woo, I think, fairly successfully.
- [Lesley] She's being flirted with for five minutes, so she's let her hair down, literally.
- In one breath, you've compared me to a dog, a porcupine and a donkey.
- And yet there's no woman I admire more.
- Yeah, I think it works.
Champagne and the caviar, and of course my company, they seem to be doing what they're supposed to do.
- And she's not prepared for that at all.
And then all sorts of things happen because she doubts him and then she thinks he's a good guy, but maybe a good guy who's a bit edgy, but then maybe she likes him because he's a bit edgy.
- Perhaps next time you'll give love a chance.
- Next time?
Goodness, no, I don't think there'll be a next time.
- I don't see why not.
A woman like you can't be short of suitors.
- So God knows where that's gonna go.
You'll have to come back to series 12.
- You're quite right.
Unforgivably smooth.
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