Sharon Horgan admits she ‘loves being chased by baddies’ as she swaps small screen for A-list blockbuster

The Catastrophe actress is making it big in the States
Jennifer Ruby2 March 2018
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Sharon Horgan says she loved being “chased by baddies” in her latest project — a blockbuster Hollywood movie.

The writer and actress, known for TV comedies Catastrophe and Pulling, said Game Night was unlike anything in her career to date.

Horgan, 47, stars alongside Rachel McAdams and Jason Bateman in the blackly comic film as a woman called Sarah who accepts an invitation to a murder mystery game night — which turns out to be more real than she expected.

The Irish star, who lives in Hackney, said: “I haven’t done anything like this before, any films I’ve done have been indie films in Ireland. I love film, I love going to the cinema and when I read the script I felt that it was funny, it made me laugh and the whole action/thriller element — I just thought it would be really fun to do.”

Joining the A-list: Sharon Horgan stars in Game Night
Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

Horgan made her name with Pulling, which she wrote and starred in, about a group of three single friends living in a London houseshare.

Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe, which she co-wrote with American actor Rob Delaney, is about a teacher who becomes pregnant after a brief fling. It stars Horgan and Delaney as the couple, with the late Carrie Fisher as Delaney’s mother. The show proved a hit here and in the US.

In 2011 she starred in a film version of Mary Norton’s book The Borrowers, opposite Christopher Eccleston.

Horgan said: “The only thing I’ve ever done resembling a stunt was The Borrowers and that was like six or seven years ago.

"They’re fun to do. It’s really great being chased by baddies in a car and running around a mansion and being chased while holding a Fabergé egg. It’s not like anything I do on telly — which is what made it fun.”

Of her Game Night character, she said: “She’s not far from me as a character so it didn’t feel like a massive stretch or anything.

“I guess I feel more comfortable in a way in what I write because I’m writing very specifically for myself and now I know that character so well, I know what about her is funny.”

Game Night is out in UK cinemas now.

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