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| Interview with Meera Syal by Debbie Taylor TALKING to Meera Syal, I kept having to remind myself that she didn’t know me from Adam. Because when she cupped her hands around her mug, or leant forward to offer biscuits from a leftover Christmas tin, I felt I’d known her all my life. Her face is so utterly familiar from the small screen, and she has that easy warmth many actors display, from years of being dropped into new situations and falling on their feet. She lives in a big Edwardian semi in East London, an estate agent’s fantasy with ‘stripped-pine floors and original features’. But there the cliché stops, because everything else about her home is tastefully and flamboyantly ‘Indian’, as the old man in Goodness Gracious Me would say: embroidered fabrics glinting with tiny mirrors, elaborate wooden carvings on the vivid walls, fine rugs in rich patterns. We’re alone in the house. Her six-year-old daughter’s off playing at a friend’s; her journalist partner is away. It’s a Saturday afternoon - the only time she could fit me in. She’s just finished filming, since then, there have been back-to-back negotiations - ‘meetings hell’ - about a TV adaptation of Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee (her latest novel, reviewed in the last Mslexia). With all this other activity - she’s an established serious actor as well as a comedienne, with a growing list of screenwriting credits - why did she decide to write novels? For the whole interview, read Issue 15 » Subscribe! Go to » Meera Syal's Method |
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For more on MEERA SYAL, go to www.contemporarywriters.com
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