![]() ![]() “You can’t make him too reckless because it would just completely isolate an audience, to have someone being a very dangerous dad. “It’s a real-life responsibility, having a kid,” he explains. The series sees Stath facing up to the responsibility of having a child or, as Demetriou puts it, “having a one per cent increase in introspection, but from having had zero per cent introspection in his life, that is quite significant.” As the new season begins, family estate agents Michael & Eagle Lettings is thrust into crisis, the gorgeous will-they-won’t‑they between his sister, Sophie (played by Demetriou’s real-life sister, Natasia) and colleague Al looked set to boil over, whilst Stath is preparing for fatherhood. ![]() But in quite a literal way, it needed to have a third series because I left the second one on a cliffhanger.” “I didn’t feel like I’d run out of ideas at the time, but maybe when I started writing, that crossed my mind. ![]() Even without lockdown, he describes his writing process largely as “vanishing into a hole on my own for a while”. That made it very difficult to write.” The sole writer on the show, Demetriou wrote the third season in Los Angeles last year. “Oh, mate,” says Demetriou, shaking his head. Was it a worry to make a third series at all, given that so many crucial British comedies call it a day after two? If there’s one thing you need to know about Demetriou, it’s that he worries a lot – he has spoken in interviews before about anxiety and finishes almost every answer with an apology about the answer being boring (it never is) or depressing (more on this later). “It’s a bit like being on stage and being interviewed about how the gig went,” he says. “Taking something that’s a bad idea,” says a smiling Demetriou over Zoom, “something that’s hacky, and to actually do a good job with it, that’s something I aspire to in a really big way.”ĭemetriou, 33, is speaking to me from the London edit suite where he’s in the final 48 hours of editing the third series of Stath Lets Flats. And yet, across three seasons now, actor and writer Jamie Demetriou has created a universally loved, multi-Bafta-winning comedy where we root for – and we really do – estate agents. It’s a truth universally acknowledged that there just might be jobs in Britain that command more respect than estate agents. ![]()
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