Sally Phillips may be new to the world of crime-solving, but she’s been a detective for decades. “When you’re acting, you are basically a detective for the character,” she explains. “You’re given your clue, which is your script – and you have to construct the character from that.
Somehow, though, comedy stars keep ending up at crime scenes. Overleaf, you’ll find two of the past few years’ biggest murder mysteries fronted by Peep Show’s David Mitchell and The League of Gentlemen’s Mark Gatiss – not to mention Phillips’ good friend and Austin co-star Ben Miller, who’s played not one but two TV detectives in Death in Paradise and Professor T. Has he passed on any detection tips?
“No, we didn’t really talk about that,” she laughs. “He just talked about how lovely it is filming in Belgium…”
And in any case The Hairdresser Mysteries isn’t exactly Nordic noir. From her West Midlands salon, hairdresser detective Lily Petal runs into murders of the Father Brown or Shakespeare and Hathaway variety, with little blood, gore or traumatised relatives to worry about.
“In cosy crime, the murder is basically a bit of a rupture in an otherwise orderly, tightknit, fun community. The detective’s job is to solve it and restore the order, giving people the sense that good sense prevails, even if – as an example from our show – someone has been pushed over a banister after giving a bad haircut.”
“I’ve spent loads of time in the hairdresser’s because my hair is basically wire wool, and you tell them everything,” Phillips says. “And they tell you everything. One hairdresser told me that they had ended up cutting the hair of the wife, the mistress, the mother and the mother-in-law in a love triangle. The stress of trying to remember who had told them what…”
“I like to do lots of different things, so it’s not a 12-year job,” she says. Instead, she suggests, one day in the future another hairdresser could take up Lily’s mantle, in a “Doctor Who scenario”.
“Michael’s a great performer,” she adds, then pauses. “Actually, he’s now doing a cosy crime series as well. So all three of us are playing detectives! He’s playing the head of the dog unit in a rural crime department in Australia.”
“That will be our response to a burning world,” Phillips agrees. “It’ll be, ‘Give us something where everything is happy in the end!’ Eventually, TV will be wall-to-wall cosy crime.” Huw Fullerton
Sally Phillips also appears in Austin, Friday 10.40pm, 11.05pm BBC One
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