I couldnt take it All Creatures Great and Smalls Samuel West on parenting struggle
All Creatures Great and Small: Samuel West teases future series
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Actor Samuel West, who plays Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small, has starred in the uplifting Channel 5 series since 2020. The 55-year-old actor from Hammersmith has previously appeared in films such as Howard’s End, Notting Hill and Darkest Hour. In a recent interview on the Talkshire podcast, Samuel had confessed how his journey into fatherhood stopped him from watching certain TV shows.
Speaking about All Creatures Great and Small, the actor explained: “I mean, I think people need gentle, decent television about people trying to care for each other in reduced suffering, rather than excellent, hard-hitting, what you might call, gritty television about terrible things happening to innocent people.
“I’m not saying we don’t need that stuff but there’s a lot of that about.
“When I became a father, I had to stop watching a lot of television drama, not that it wasn’t brilliant, but so much of it seemed to be about terrible things happening to kids and I just couldn’t take it,” he told Talkshire podcast.
“So I’m really rather proud and sort of feeling strangely revolutionary to be making a series about people trying to be kind to each other, and sometimes failing,” he added.
Later, the actor gushed over the series showrunner Ben Vanstone who has created a sense of light-hearted escapism for Channel 5 audiences.
He praised: “Also Ben had a, what is really, a revolutionary idea in that he’s tried very hard to write a series where there are no baddies.
“I mean, there are certainly people who do bad things, we all do, and there are people who do thoughtless, and careless, and cruel things, but there’s nobody who’s out to cause harm,” he revealed.
Samuel claimed the series is more relatable than what most may think, he admitted: “That’s quite hard to get past a television executive nowadays because somehow it makes people think that you’re out of touch, but actually, that’s what most stories are or should be about, I think.
“It’s based on the idea of community and looking after each other in sickness and in health.”
Discussing the show’s lead character James Herriot, played by Nicholas Ralph, the actor said: “It’s based on the idea of welcoming an outsider, James, from Glasgow, and traditionally, I don’t need to tell you that Yorkshire societies can be quite insular and quite mistrustful of outsiders. “
He added: “But they learn to take him in and they learn to love him.
“It’s also based on people whose professional business is the reduction of suffering, and who have to work to be particularly empathetic in order to understand, you know, what’s wrong with a cow because it can’t tell you,” Samuel confessed.
The Siegfried actor also spoke about Derek the pooch, who’s called Tricky Woo on the show, and is Mrs Pumphrey’s (Dianna Rigg) dog.
He gushed: “Tricky Woo is the most extraordinary, extraordinary dog.
“I mean, I realise how silly I sound saying this but he absolutely has read the script. “If it’s a quiet scene, he can be calm. If it’s a tragic scene, he can be quite moving.”
“He seems to, sort of, feel the atmosphere and just respond. It’s very remarkable.”
The Talkshire Podcast is avialable to stream on Spotify and Apple Music
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