How Mel and sueperkins made the transition from 'Bake Off' to bump off with their new 'Hitmen' series
” represents in some ways a dramatic departure from the “sweet and fluffy” halcyon days of “Bake Off.” However, fans of their infectious camaraderie needn’t worry. Perkins reassures that their trademark “pissing about” is still a key ingredient of this batter, just sub in bullets for chocolate chips.
But instead of coldly blowing their marks’ brains out like professional killers, Fran and Jamie are a lonesome pair who prefer to have a chat and get to know their victims a little, with often disastrous consequences. “We’ve done bits and bobs on our own, but the scripts came through the post and made us laugh out loud off the page. It’s quite rare that that happens, to be honest — mostly because we don’t get sent lots of scripts,” Giedroyc says. “We’re a pair of perimenopausal women in our early 50s, and the writers [Joe Markham and Joe Parham] are really cool, happening guys. The fact they wanted to write for us, we were just so chuffed about that.
“Going into it we were cacking ourselves,” Giedroyc admits. “I remember on day one of filming Sue and I got together in my little bunker — my little caravan — parked next door to hers obviously, and we said, ‘Right, we’re carrying this show, neither of us went to drama school, this is going to be quite interesting for the Mel-Sue collective.’ We had sleepless nights and moments telling each other, ‘I can’t do this.’ But the fact is, we always have each other’s’ backs and that got us through.
Tonally speaking, “Hitmen” isn’t a million miles from BBC America’s “Killing Eve” in its irreverence and occasional moments of brutal violence. But instead of Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer’s sartorial cool, “Hitmen” is governed by the kind of “shambolism” that makes Giedroyc and Perkins quintessentially Mel and Sue.
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