Here We Go | Interview with Tori Allen-Martin (Cherry)

How was filming the series of Here We Go?

Filming Here We Go with that cast was a pleasure and a privilege to work alongside people that I have respected as actors, actresses for so long, it was a dream come true. It’s definitely been a real pinch me moment to land a job like this, and they say never meet your heroes, but you should definitely meet this lot if they happen to be your heroes because they couldn’t be a nicer bunch. I really enjoy doing comedy in general because you have to be able to laugh at yourself to be good at comedy so you tend to meet people who are just a really good laugh and don’t take themselves too seriously, so there’s a really nice atmosphere on set.

Tom, who wrote Here We Go but also plays Robin my, on/off fiancé in the show is so gracious with letting people try things and we always do a fun pass, once Tom and our Director know that they’ve got what they need and that’s super fun and you never know what people are going to pull out the bag. So it’s always really entertaining. So in short, it’s an absolute dream to film.

Do you think you would be friends with Cherry in real life?

I think I’d enjoy a night out with her, I think it would be incredibly entertaining, so she’d be high on the list for somebody I’d have few drinks with and hit a club with, but I think we’re very different as human beings and I don’t think I could handle the drama that being her mate would entail. I think I’m too old and chilled to put up with hurricane Cherry. I’ve got a lot of love for her but we’re very different people, so I think I’d have to love her hard from afar.

What do you think is Cherry’s greatest strength?

I think Cherry’s greatest strength is that she is so unapologetically who she is. Yes, she takes no prisoners and she out of line sometimes, she’s blunt to a fault. You know where you stand with Cherry, she’s very straight down the line and honest and although that can be a bit confrontational for people, I think it is really refreshing to have somebody who isn’t afraid to speak their mind, be upfront and completely unapologetic, and I think she loves herself hard and I think we could all love ourselves a little bit more. So be more Cherry in that sense!

What do you think Cherry loves about Robin?

I understand it could look like she doesn’t love him very much at all, she gives him such a hard time but I think meeting Robin she knows she found somebody very loyal, who do anything for her and adores her and I think she likes how she feels around Robin. I think she likes to bask in in the glory and the bright lights he casts upon her I think she feels safe there and adored. So I think that’s what she loves about him. And I also think because Robin adores Cherry so much, he put on a really good front and promised her the absolute world, whether he can actually deliver on any of it remains to be seen but the intentions are there!

What were your first impressions of the scripts?

My first impressions of the scripts were just absolute brilliance. I think Tom is an absolute genius as a comedy writer, I think the nuances and the subtleties he gets off people and family dynamics, he’s just so spot on all the time. I honestly I couldn’t love the show more and I’m so proud to be a part of it it’s 100% the sort of thing that I would watch. It’s just so easy to get into the material because the characters are so well drawn, even reading them, they fly off the page. I love the show and I really hope people watch because you will not be disappointed, Tom has outdone and excelled himself. I genuinely love the scripts and the people, its laugh a minute. My face aches at the end of a day with that lot, you laugh so much you are desperate to stop, laughing gets painful after a while. 

There are some real laugh-out-loud moment this series, what was your favourite scene to shoot? 

There’s this scene where Paul Jessop, played perfectly by Jim Howick, has a bit of a problem on a bike ride, and we have to get him out of the boot of the car and I honestly don’t think we did one take that I didn’t laugh at some point. I remember hiding behind other cast members, I struggled to work with Jim anyway because I just find him the funniest man in the world and he always does something new every take that throws me in the best possible way. It’s really nice when we get to do a scene all together and that was one of those, absolutely, everybody’s in it.

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