Jessie Buckley has expressed her delight that she and co-star Olivia Colman had the chance to turn the air blue in their new comedy Wicked Little Letters, describing the swearing as "delicious".
Wicked Little Letters sees the "fiery Rose Gooding" (Buckley) and "the pious Edith Swan" (Colman) taking centre stage as a scandal erupts in a 1920s English seaside town about anonymous letters "written with foul language as eccentric as it is obscene".
Speaking to The Irish Examiner ahead of the film's release, Buckley said Colman sent her the script.
"When she sent me the script, I read it and I laughed, and I was like: 'Oh my God, a whole film about cursing, how delicious'," Buckley recounted.
When asked if there was "swearing bootcamp" before filming began, Buckley laughed: "I didn't need one and neither did Olivia. You could feel it on the set; it gives people permission to be a bit naughty. There is a kind of tingle on the set between the crew when Queen Olivia is going for gold and when she gets going."
With Buckley playing the role in her native accent, the Killarney star reflected on Irish people's ability to let rip with colourful invective.
"It must be all those verbs we learned when we were young: féachaim, féachann tú, féachann sé, féachann sí," she joked.
Directed by Thea Sharrock (The One and Only Ivan, Me Before You), Wicked Little Letters is released on Friday 23 February.
"I have a slight dream in my heart that the lovely ladies around the villages of Ireland and England will meet on park benches and let it all pour out," Buckley added.
