Derry Girls Behind the Scenes Stories & Highlights | Edinburgh TV Festival

[@dylanryan2567]

One of my favorite lines from the show, when the lead girl isn't allowed wear a Jacket instead of her uniform but, the other girl shows up wearing a jacket and says "Well I'm not going to be individual on my own!" Haha Just how innocent it is is so funny!

[@tundehixon1919]

Mine as well. Genius!

[@bobwheeler8101]

Excellent delivery!

[@reginasmith9014]

One of my favorite lines from the show was Orla offering the guy the cigarette lighter, “I don’t smoke either, I just like melting stuff.”

[@LawNerdAmber]

Keep eyes open in season 3 I noticed she does the most wacky stuff in the background, including with her lighter and hair 🤣

[@franzschubertv2874]

I consider that really good character introduction. It’s funny as a bonus. Like “this isn’t Nam, it’s bowling, there are rules”. Those kind of lines let you know where the character’s head is and you can infer a backstory.

[@eliawillinger4329]

honestly i felt that line i was like "same"

[@Nocturnal_Fae]

I could watch 30 seasons of Derry Girls!

[@luiysia]

dylan not even in the shot til halfway thru the video. brilliant

[@patrickh3385]

I can see him at 0:47!

[@sean-gk4eg]

Irish all the way 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪💪

[@brandicew7704]

?? He's there from the beginning??

[@TiberiousStJames]

You can see him at 15 seconds in. That's hardly half the video mate

[@staystaystaywithme6456]

I want a season 4! This has been my comfort show 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@fionalawler6952]

Me too!!!!

[@lazybum6387]

Achh same here

[@erinbevan4789]

“did they hurt?” dylan is LITERALLY james

[@skatergrl13]

except for Orla and Clare, they are literally their characters

[@compulsiverambler1352]

​@@skatergrl13Dylan is a mixture of James and Orla. He didn't go to a school for autistic and dyslexic students purely because of his dyslexia, that is pretty obvious to other autistics, and he has dropped enough clues in newspaper interviews at this point when describing his childhood. He is great to have out there visible at least to fellow auties, being successful and loved by colleagues, helps make up for Elon Musk being autistic 😅

[@angelamurphy9472]

Bring on Season 3! We need more Sister Michael!

[@andrewrodgers2180]

She is a right corker alright.

[@geneg3776]

Derry Girls is the most fun, engaging and entertaining show I have seen in years. We do not have many shows like this these days. The actors/characters are phenomenal. So disappointed that there are no more seasons. This was my go to show especially after a hard/bad day. This show always cheers me up and makes me laugh with many nice moments too.

[@heliopolis]

It’s a work of genius!

[@aarushidhir2301]

I mean I absolutely loved the show and I didn't think it could get any better. But the cast, god! Apart from being phenomenal actors, their chemistry is so natural and magnetic. You really end up wishing you were friends with them, in and out of character.

[@hux2000]

3:58 - I *love* how the first famous person she thinks of that she'd like to have in the show is Ardal O'Hanlon...and then he ended up being in the show!

[@eeeeer9514]

It's really good to see such a successful female lead comedy as there's such a stereotype/sexisum saying women aren't funny and it pisses me off as it's just so untrue I mean look at this show it's all women (except the wee gay fella) and it's hilarious!

[@joannamoore4477]

I have never come across a female comedian that i find funny but i find this series hilarious! Reminds me of our own upbringing without the civil war

[@night377]

It might be nice to have a famous actor but tbh the characters on the show already are some of the best & so easy to love. All of them bring something to the table.

[@donsharpe5786]

I didn't watch Derry Girls on TV. After seeing an extract, I watched the whole two series back to back. It isn't just the situations which are hilarious but some of the throw away lines had me in stitches. I was watching them on the computer while my wife was asleep and I had a terrible job not to burst out laughing out loud. Thank you for writing such a brilliant series. Please do series 3 and more.

[@PinkyPurpleGalaxy]

Hahah!

[@lotlot]

Facial expressions too are priceless

[@donsharpe5786]

@@lotlot Not only priceless but essential. It shows what talented actresses are now up and coming and filling the shoes of those who have gone before. I take my hat off to the whole cast ancient and modern.

[@alittleantidote5852]

I just finished doing this Stumbled upon a video of Sister Micheals best parts on Facebook and quickly went down the rabbit hole

[@oneirishpoet]

I just discovered the dairy girls during the pandemic and it might have saved my life, along with a lot of other comedy shows. But as a 63-year-old Irish American man working as a nurse in a large Urban hospital in the Midwest, this show has made my wife and I laugh so much to the point of tears.. I think we watched every show at least two times and finally season 3 came out on Netflix!

[@hannahelsiee]

I just finished watching 3 seasons of derry girls on netflix and naturally I'm watching all the cast interviews 🤣

[@blozzjani]

Derry girls is totally my favourite show! A show about teens growing up amidst the troubles of northern Ireland really shouldn't be soo funny but it simply adds to the herality of the teens growing pains

[@birdiekawaii9073]

I need season 3!!! I absolutely love this show and the cast is so amazing!!

[@mohowto8319]

Me too

[@oneirishpoet]

Me too and I'm a 63-year-old Irish American man living in the Midwest... my wife and I love the show and it has kept me sane through the pandemic while working overtime shifts as a nurse at a large Urban hospital. When season 3 just showed up on Netflix we watched almost all the shows in a row and I've never done that before!

[@leahhunter9179]

Can’t believe it’s over just watched the final and they ended it brilliantly

[@neecy1000]

I'm so hanging out for season 3, I've watched 1 and 2 three times...these characters are great and so funny, I also find the more serious scenes very moving and usually brings me to tears...BRING ON SEASON 3!! 😁🍀💚

[@mohowto8319]

Yeah

[@walterpaton8698]

I came for the show and stayed for all of the accents. Michelle introducing the wee English fella as having an accent, that's the way they talk. Funniest line...

[@djvelocity]

I just found this show for the first time this week and it is a smash hit! I should note, I’m in Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦🍁. *We love you across the pond Derry!*

[@Alexi7666]

Yes!! Bring on season FOUR of "Derry Girls". More of Colm. More of Dennis and his Wee Store. I just love them all.

[@paolala]

so they are literally their characters except for orla

[@AmyAberrant]

Louisa is more like Clare than Orla!

[@Cruelladevillewearsprada]

@@AmyAberrant why do you say that?

[@carriew5106]

I don't think Nicola is much like Clare irl. But I do think she has a tendency to lean into a character when she is around the cast.

[@starsign0805]

​@@carriew5106Oh yeah she's been giving high-key Penelope energy in her Bridgerton 3 promotion interviews. Also, this is from 3 years ago, you probably change as a person with each role.

[@michaelmuldowney8]

After a stressful week - I binge watched all of Derry Girls in one day. Perfect stress reliever.

[@MiaPascual]

They’re so real and I can’t stop laughing looking at them! 😍😍😍

[@sunshineforce]

Michelle grew on me later on in the series, but I have to say, out of all the one liners she had, my favorite one was from the last season when they were practicing their Spice Girls routine and she goes ' And what the fuck are you doing Claire? The haka?'

[@mymai5859]

As a Maori from New Zealand I freakn loved this line & laughed my head off.

[@jhk3594]

Best line ever 🤩

[@Brandon-bh7pj]

Just gotten into the show. I'm loving it so far. I'm half Irish and most of my dads family are from Northern Ireland. I love this. Gotta love the Irish people 😀 🇮🇪

[@bifftannen324]

Orla is my favorite character

[@ronetteskiestante4064]

I love this show!!! Hope they do more seasons:) this has become an instant favorite as soon as I finished the 1st season , and then the 2nd season is even more brilliant ! :)

[@mimahamed7337]

Omg whether in stage or not these actors and actresses are literally so talented and comedic

[@teresachaperlo8356]

I LOVE this show!!!!!!!! Please make lots and lots of seasons of it!!!!!!! I am watching it for the 3rd time.... so good! Thank you for this show!

[@campbellfulton8763]

The wee English fella is awfully quiet

[@TheDubgal]

He can't get a word in edgeways lol

[@jez2466]

But when he speaks !

[@ukfriendtoall7435]

Have you ever tried to talk, when there are some many women talking!

[@mollyhappymum4816]

That’s because he’s a wee English fella🤣🤣🥰🥰🥰

[@roro_mrti]

@@ukfriendtoall7435 that has nothing to do with gender lol, he's shy, most of the girls aren't thats why, even with that many woemn if he was an extrovert and the girls introvert ypu would hear him more, it has to do with personnality

[@ayleen7558]

Love the show and all characters.

[@may.k_me]

I rewatched series 1 and 2 yesterday Looking forward to season 3. Annoyed that COVID got in the way of filming.

[@markcutmore7811]

Yeah,so annoying that all those people dying

[@farihajafri6317]

Love them all

[@elizabeth12192]

Love,love,love the Derry Girls

[@megansaltzman1815]

whoever wrote the script has major TALENT.

[@MiaPascual]

Make season 3 pleaseeeee

[@monalisahota]

Watching season 2. Omg so hilarious! Amazing interview

[@marykelly9698]

Absolutely true I'm glad these girls brought this up , I honestly think you have to have a very strong mental health to be an actor or actress , well done girls

[@bsk7033]

Dylan 😍😍

[@cmila2468]

Not Dylan outing the nipple piercing 😂😂😂😂

[@denengeakpera5867]

Season three please

[@andrewrodgers2180]

Thanks for bringing some much needed light into the world, Derry Girls + Boy

[@katiklein-j2m]

I love that she manifested Ardal into the show. He’s so funny!

[@simonlunt353]

I just love this great tv series it makes you laugh think and you feel with the Characters well done 👍

[@dave_dhannoo]

Miss the accent and the place, used to live there, fantastic series.

[@rocky7173]

Who would put a thumbs down to a laugh I am Irish and Catholic can't stop laughing Sister Michael like no nun I KNOW 🙋🐕🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

[@XxMyLameUserNamexX]

They’re so pretty and handsome! The facial expressions they make in the show kept me from appreciating how attractive they all are.

[@smcgilli34]

Colm is the best character!

[@johnrathnam5929]

LOVE this show and these actors!!!

[@ShabbeyRoadMusic]

I love the we-uns (wains, whatever), and Granda Joe and damn .... Uncle Colm! He must be a clone of a friend of mine because my friend, bless him, ... he can hang with Uncle Colm any day on the talk-yer-ear-off-and-swap-topics-on-a-dime thing. I've actually had to say "Can I just stop ya for a minute?" to him --- just like Mary Quinn did to Colm.

[@Dave61Mi]

“I just need you to stop talking now.” -Mary Quinn

[@darraghgregory1269]

Best irish /northernirish show 👌

[@aoibhie1208]

My principal is a nun and she's the most threatening people I've ever seen. She's got a while intimidating aura.

[@walterpaton8698]

My eight grade math nun teacher always carried a steel ruler and was not afraid to use it.

[@ajjohnstone7063]

Hilarious show. So many similarities to folk from Derry and Glasgow 😂

[@MsWootube]

Didn't they get Ardal O'Hanlon on the show? Did I recognize him as the son of Bridie or was I off?

[@marriecurrie5435]

Season 3 pleaseeeeeeeee

[@Darraghkav04]

After what he said u see Dylan talking to Louise embarrassed felt bad for him there

[@ialya391]

This show is reeeeeeally good, I don't understand why it's only 2 seasons??? ☹☹☹

[@tonygouveia6649]

Absolutely hilarious 😂😂😂

[@celticlofts]

Ardal o'hanlon played Dougal in Father Ted..

[@bobwheeler8101]

Watching it years later, a Catholic American who went to Catholic school in the 70’s & 80’s was pretty triggering, but amazing!

[@PinkyPurpleGalaxy]

Dylan just outted her omg jdrkodndkdc

[@adriankelly3234]

How did they ever get thatt to work?ìm delighted .theyyy put derry on the

[@adriankelly3234]

Map

[@adriankelly3234]

Inagreat way good luck

[@marshmallowblaster]

Louisa just quit her pub job? Imagine how cool that would have been to order a pint from Louisa!

[@name-mh2cn]

lmaoo not dylan telling the whole world about Saoirses nipple piercing...

[@jimringomartin]

I'm here for Saoirise-Monica Jackson. Love her enough to research how to spell her name😅😅

[@center__mass]

who is the bloke next to the interviewer?

[@bigtatties]

Michael Lennox

[@debbieflaherty1975]

Chris Pratt doing impersonations of the Derry Girls on Graham Norton’s chat show….hilarious! Muvva!

[@Aimtofflan]

Jamie-Lee is stunning tho!

[@audreybland8300]

young offenders and derry girls mashup please please please

[@bananacathammock]

Wait is Saoirse originally has black hair?

[@Strandlights]

Orla and James sitting on a tree~

[@gls600]

The show needs a cameo from frost bite boy.

[@DeeBee334]

Not Dylan exposing Saoirse’s nipple piercing 😂 💀

[@mariarahelvarnhagen2729]

Do You Know The One About The Old Yale Loyola Derry Girl That Did Ask Fate ?

[@mariarahelvarnhagen2729]

They Trashed Her As Queen Victoria After She Was Blown Away In Spanish Armada

[@kev_mclernon_family_channe4745]

My 8th grade nuns: Tank, Sarge, and Hawk. 7 years of nuns that should have been institutionalized it was my 8th grade nuns that inspired me. 1-7 I do think 2 were ok but for real, it was a pathetic experience.

[@conorsmith8551]

Imagine someone called it londonderry girls

[@yorkrose26]

You. An imagine in 20 years time this will be as cult a hit as Father Ted

[@conorsmith8551]

Imagine they did a crossover with father ted universe and Graham Norton appeared in a cameo as father furlong and he’s been sent to Derry parish 🤣🤣 would be gold. Need to see that character again

[@adelesteele4378]

@@conorsmith8551 Yes, though how about Column and Father Paul Stone having a 'bore-off'?

[@blablawhiskassache]

@@adelesteele4378 😂😂 every time he made an appearance I thought of father Paul Stone and how would be wonderful to have a cameo to have both of them chatting (although for some reason I thought his name was father Purcell)

[@essflem]

The interviewer talked sssssooo much

[@philipowen3370]

What a mess the interviewer made of reading the questions, why not put it on her lap!

[@rakadoni8403]

Not a great interviewer, the questions were a bit naff

[@knoll9812]

Agree weak interviewer. She couldn't spin the wheel

[@cianfurlong6336]

9:45 Interesting tit-bit

[@anaferreira596]

I hardly understand lol !

[@knoll9812]

Dead funny

[@bellesogne]

I'm neither Irish nor Catholic, but I feel that God will punish me now because I want to see the piercing.

[@Argeaux2]

This interviewer is doing a really bad job. You've got a really talented group of actors sitting around, saying very little, while she keeps yammering on about herself.

[@belamoure]

Poor James true to form they totally obliterated him how unfair. Sad.

[@Theethreetree]

Uncle colm!!!!

[@fliconmigo]

The interviewer needs to stop talking

[@michaelskaggs2459]

What the heck is Derry Girls?

[@clairec1267]

Think female version of Inbetweeners but set in Derry in Northern Ireland during the troubles

[@ilyabest3784]

Feel like the writers and directors don’t have a great relationship with the cast.

[@Cruelladevillewearsprada]

How so?

[@idontevenhaveapla7224]

​@@Cruelladevillewearsprada projection

[@Paul-nr6ws]

That interviewer is terrible

[@jamesconnolly8731]

I'm telling yis folks I'm pervin ur one in da adidas

[@JR-km3zk]

Dylan WTF?! You can’t say such personal info about an actress! That was so cringy.

[@smaragdinepearl5439]

Agreed it shouldn’t have been said, but I can see how he probably wasn’t aware that this sort of thing is more personal (nowadays everyone’s very open - maybe not where they are though perhaps), and was simply trying to get in a word and be part of the interview. He was trying to play into the story but didn’t realise perhaps and you can see he’s truly embarrassed for revealing that later - his intention wasn’t to harm or oust :)

[@compulsiverambler1352]

Not so cringey, the girls' reactions indicate that they understood the innocent intent and are used to the way his brain works, and luckily Saoirse seems not to be the type of person to care about people knowing that, as she evidently wasn't mortified, or she wouldn't have prolonged the audience picturing it with the "no it didn't hurt" comment. Just a textbook example of caetextia ("context blindness"), right down to the realisation quickly afterwards when the delayed accessing of relevant background knowledge finally occurs. The relevant background knowledge including: other people here don't already know about the piercing; they will know as a result of me completing the funny story; people sometimes don't want strangers knowing they have a piercing. Such "obvious" pieces of background information are in the brain but in dynamic situations like conversation they get accessed and processed with a delay, in people with a monotropic, "context-blind" brain type. Sadly it got called "autism" decades ago and that etymologically misleading term has stuck, and is hard to get rid of at this point. I am proud to say as an autie, it is pretty obvious that Dylan is in this category, to anyone who has the same brain type and has spent time around many other real people with it, from a wide range of indicators that are not bad things but are often neutral or positive traits characteristic of autism. Just for example, characteristic hypotonic body posture, subtle stimmy mannerisms and less neurotypical-passing stims like bouncing on the spot. "Dylan stop jumping" in GBBO was a very relatable moment, a bit of a jab in the heart. In interviews in newspapers you only have to read between the lines, he is dropping hints at it strongly enough for those with any experience of it, e.g. describing his special school as being for children with autism and dyslexia (the school itself does not mention autism specifically in its website, just Developmental Language Disorder, so choosing to mention that many of the students are autistic despite that not actually being the school's focus is interesting) and talking about being lonely and unable to make friends at school, being shy in all but small manageable groups, etc. When put together, these are not subtle ways of identifying yourself to other autistic people who will read your interviews and be inspired by your success. But subtle enough to avoid discrimination from casting directors, as there's a myth that all autistic people can't make or read facial expressions and so can't be good actors. And the infantilising way he gets interacted with and spoken about, for better or worse, by colleagues and interviewers, it is a dead giveaway. Most neurotypicals have better autism radar than they realise, it is just that they don't know that the adults they have this strong urge to take under their wing are the same category of person that experts call "autistic". They don't recognise this "little lost lamb" quality, as they experience it, as the condition they have heard talked about as "autism", due to the inaccurate popular culture association between autism and cold, Spock-like personalities.