Sally Phillips(I)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus offered her a recurring guest part on Veep (2012), as she is a big fan of Phillips' sketch show Smack the Pony (1999).

[on working in America] What attracts me about over there is that TV drama and TV comedy is the best in the world, but it seems like a very brutalising process. Every spring there are these planes full of British actors - it's like sardine-tins full of British hope - and they all go and sit on beaches and think it's fantastic for a couple of weeks and then get fantastically depressed and go on juice diets and come back two stone lighter and talking nonsense. (2013)