Romola Garai gave Nick Grimshaw one of the standout stories of his Monday show, describing how audiences repeatedly fainted during performances of The Years, the play that earned her an Olivier nomination. She said she was warned by the director that one particular scene might have a strong effect on viewers, but nothing prepared her for what actually happened. "People were just falling out their seats," she told Nick, adding that it happened "pretty much every time" they staged it, often forcing the show to stop while people were helped out of the theatre.
Listen: Fainting at the theatre
Garai also talked at length about her new ITV drama Adultery, in which she plays a woman who has an affair with the father of her son's girlfriend, played by Dominic Cooper. She admitted she was initially wary of the script because it was written by a man, but said her concerns eased once she saw how sympathetically her character was treated. She also revealed that filming racy scenes with Cooper felt faintly absurd given their age, joking that he kept turning to her between takes to insist "these characters are terrible."
Earlier in the show, potter and author Keith Brimer Jones spoke to Nick about his new book Fire on Earth, recalling how he fell in love with clay at school, calling it "like a religious calling," and revealing that the oldest known piece of ceramic, found in the Czech Republic, contains a 29,000-year-old child's thumbprint.
Nick also shared a story doing the rounds online about Paul McCartney mocking "AI slop" pop songs on Amy Poehler's podcast Good Hang, much to the amusement of listeners.
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