Saoirse-Monica Jackson, 25, plays the main character in Channel 4’s popular Derry Girls, a sitcom about a group of teenagers growing up in 1990s Northern Ireland amid the Troubles. Jackson, who grew up in Derry and Co Donegal, now lives in east London.
The recent second series of Derry Girls was filmed during the winter, and there was a horrific 4am wake-up, drive to the set, then an attempt to make good choices about how to act, eat and treat people through the grumpiness.
Usually I have Marmite on toast with banana for breakfast in the make-up trailer, and a chat with the girls about David Bowie for a bit, then we’re whisked off to location, running through the script on the way — laughing
