MCGEE: What's funny is that it's boring the other characters. MCSWEENEY: (As Sister Michael) Am I in hell? The story he's telling has to be entertaining. MCSWEENEY: (As Sister Michael) Am I dead? MCALEER: (As Uncle Colm) For when the bride arrived, and as I say, by this stage, the wind was fierce. And it's great comedy, but there's a fine line you have to walk, right? SHAPIRO: I was thinking that's a real risk, writing a character who is intentionally boring because the last thing you want to do is bore your audience. MCALEER: (As Uncle Colm) I don't mind a bit of a breeze. MCGEE: A lot of people seem to - a lot of Irish people, I know we seem to have that person in their family, and they want to talk about him, usually. Eight, half eight, for I was halfway through me dinner, and up I got to open it. MCGEE: A lot of people talk about the boring uncle, Colm. SHAPIRO: Is there one scene that everybody talks to you about? Is there one line that everybody quotes? And every time I go back, I completely forget about it until I'm walking through the center of town, and then it's like, oh, there they are. It's slap-bang in the center of the town as well. Now there's a 30-foot-tall mural of your characters in Derry. SHAPIRO: (Laughter) And now you're a huge celebrity at home. You know, they don't - they'll tell you what they think. That was - I think that's why I was so careful with some of the jokes because I just knew people in Derry aren't - the saying goes, they're not backwards in coming forwards. SHAPIRO: It's now a massive hit, but were you afraid of how it would land in Derry, how your friends and family would receive it? You know, I just - there was no sort of avoiding that because it's a sitcom. MCGEE: I knew we were going to have to make jokes about it.
But mostly, I felt like I could walk that line because I'd lived it, you know? You know, the ghosts of it are still haunting Northern Ireland, you know? So I was very careful and worried about some things. MCGEE: There were certain things I was very careful about because it is a big, serious part of our history that is still kind of everywhere. SHAPIRO: Was there any voice in the back of your head you had to overcome that said, now, now, mustn't make light of something as serious as the Troubles? We didn't think about much beyond ourselves, really, as most teenagers tend to do, you know? So, yeah, it was definitely after the fact that I realized how momentous it was, and I just wanted to end the show on that beat, really. I don't think we really understood the enormity of that at the time. SHAPIRO: Was that something that you felt as a teenager in real time, or was it only in hindsight that you saw that parallel? So I really leaned onto that as an idea, then - and it kind of all just clicked into place, you know? But as I was writing the show, I really began to realize that these kids, the five lead characters, were kind of growing up at the same time as Northern Ireland was starting to grow up. So I'd always had that in the back of my head just because it was such a significant thing, such a significant moment for me and my peers growing up. MCGEE: I think I always wanted the final scene of the show to be the Good Friday Agreement vote. In this season, you really explicitly tie the idea of coming of age as a teenager to the experience of Northern Ireland sort of entering its own adulthood in a way. So excited to talk to you about this show, which I've loved for the last three seasons.
SHAPIRO: "Derry Girls" is a coming-of-age story loosely based on the childhood of writer and creator Lisa McGee. On the other hand, and I cannot stress this enough, I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in any of your other so-called rights. To those of you who have already turned 18, I strongly urge you to exercise your right to vote. SIOBHAN MCSWEENEY: (As Sister Michael) As Jenny's awful play just alluded to, a referendum is about to take place, the outcome of which could change the course of history. This season finds them nearing graduation and having to decide whether to vote for the Good Friday Agreement, which effectively brought an end to the Troubles. Almost none are as ridiculously funny as "Derry Girls." Netflix just dropped the third and final season of the hit comedy about a group of teenage friends in Northern Ireland. Set in Iraq, Syria or Rwanda, they're often serious and tragic.
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