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Ahead of the series two launch, we also spoke to one of the show's stars - Irish actress Amy Huberman, who plays new mum Alice - to find out how her character is dealing with parenthood, how it felt to have a real baby on set and why she no longer needs to stuff her bra!
How did you feel after the success of Threesome? It did brilliantly for Comedy Central and got a second series...
"Yeah, I mean, you never know how it's going to go. We really enjoyed it, but I was certainly pleasantly surprised by how well it had done. With a comedy, you're sort of nervous about putting yourself out there.
"I think comedy has more room to go wrong than a straight drama because if it doesn't work you can look like an idiot. You can try to be funny and you're not, so in that way I was thrilled that it had done so well. Nothing is ever guaranteed - we didn't hear about a second series being commissioned for about six months. I don't think it was given the green light until January so we didn't know.
"But [dropping the show] wouldn't have made sense for Comedy Central, as it's their first scripted British sitcom and it had done so well. We were all thrilled; I was certainly over the moon to go back. I think the second series builds on the strengths of the first and I think it is even stronger and funnier."
Do you think it's important that there's a warmth to the show beyond all the sex and partying?
"Absolutely! I think that's what the writers and creators always wanted to do. Even with the second series with the baby, that's built on and that's what everybody says... you kind of want to be their friend.
"That's certainly what the director has done with Alice, as it can be harder with a female party girl, as they can be a bit laddy and then you do alienate the girls as she could be terrifying and then you don't want to be friends with her.
"We wanted to make sure Alice has a warmth and that she was a good person and she was a pal - she can drink with the lads but still has a warmth there. I think certainly the two boys have that as well and we want to maintain that and we didn't want it to be a terrifying party atmosphere where you'd never want to go over there. Especially with a baby... you don't want to worry the social workers!"
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How is it going to change Alice now that she has given birth and is a first-time Mum?
"I think even at the start of the last series, when they were these crazy party-heads, she had to stop that - they had to stop all the drink and drugs and they made this pact that while Alice was pregnant they'd support her. She had to give all that up because she was pregnant so when I went back to the second series, I was thinking, 'How are they still going to maintain who these people are, these young people living in a flat, now that they've got a kid?'
"You still want the elements of who they are there, you can't just make it a 'mistakes in parenting' show. And even though they're not going partying they've still managed to make it even more mad this series, which is brilliant.
"They have had to adjust their lives but they're still essentially three oddballs and that still remains at the heart of it - that they are funny, quirky people. It's just seeing how they do deal with parenthood, but they've done it in a way that it isn't regular clichés like, 'Oh, the baby isn't sleeping and we're all up and we're cranky'.
"It's right to think of other ways around that, to make it original and to get away from that... what you've seen before with new parents. They've come up with these funny storylines about how they're dealing with their baby in their own way and making it really original."
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Was it a relief for you this year to be free of the pregnancy suit this year?
"Yeah, but actually it was quite comfortable. What always put me off was stuffing my bra - that was more disconcerting! The fake belly was quite comfortable and it was really light and I didn't have to suck my own belly in, which was really nice!
"I had three different bumps and on the third bump the costume director was stuffing my bra - I looked like Jordan! I couldn't look at myself and I couldn't see my toes. So yeah, it was nice to be back in normal clobber, and I think they took more care this year because they wanted her to look good this year as a new mum.
"It was nice but actually the baby bump wasn't that hard to wear, though on hot days it was pretty torturous. Though this year, we had to carry a real baby around which is scarier. I was like, 'I hope I don't break it!'"
As well as being an actress, you're also an author and you've just launched your own shoe range. What is it that keeps you motivated and wanting to try new things?
"I don't know, I think I just like to have a varied life. The shoe thing came out of nowhere really. It was an Irish company who'd had a collaboration with one of my husband's colleagues and they approached me to do the same thing. It's a collaborative effort - I'm not literally in the cobbler's studio literally hammering shoes! It's more of a design input, my Dad was a designer actually, so it's always been in the family.
"The writing thing I've done for the last few years, and my second book is coming out this November. I've just finished it a couple of weeks ago. It feels amazing. I kind of started writing between acting jobs when they were scarce on the ground, when I had nothing else to do and no money to go anywhere.
"I guess it's just another creative outlet and I need that. Not to sound like a total w**ky artist, but I love having a creative outlet and if it's not acting or something like that, I do love the writing. It's kind of the same thing - it's storytelling, just your own story. I do love it and I think we're adapting my first book for TV - it's just really interesting and a learning curve for me."
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Would you like to write for television as well?
"Well, now I've finished the second book - because the second book was a year-and-a-half late, it's been a little bit of a nightmare - but I'm actually in love with it now, so I'm really glad I stuck it out. My poor publishers just wanted to shoot me!
"With acting work, stuff can come up last minute so it's hard to plan out what time you have to actually write, so I think now novel two is done I'm not going to write a novel for a couple of years. It's a lot of work and I'm not saying TV writing isn't, but you do have people helping out on that or a few writers doing that together, so I don't think I'd be so isolated or so under pressure on my own to do it.
"I've never written a script before, and I don't know why that scares me because I read them so much as an actor. With the first book [television adaptation], they have a writer attached to it and I've told them that I want to come on board. I don't want to write it myself, but if someone else does it I can learn from them doing that. That will be a learning curve and groundwork for me going forward doing my own stuff."
Back to Threesome - do you think there's potential for a third series if the second series goes down as well as the first did?
"Yeah definitely - I think the hardest thing was bridging the gap to series two. After what they came up with in series one, they've kept running post-baby. I don't think it would be as difficult to bridge the gap [to a third series] now.
"I think hopefully with series two it will prove it was kind of easy to do. I'm saying that, but they will probably sweat over it. I think they've come up with a really original and really funny way of looking at new parenting that isn't the regular cliché you would expect. They really have fun with it, so I hope it's onwards and upwards and I'd love to go back for series three."
Threesome series two begins on Monday, October 1 at 9.30pm on Comedy Central.
