“Me and my college boyfriend Tom used to sit up all night going: ‘I’m going to be in a Mike Leigh film, then I’m going to be in a Ken Loach film, then I’ll tour with Théâtre de Complicité.’ There was no talk of: ‘I’ll do theatre in education for a year then I’ll get turned down for an advert,’” she recalls, with an enthusiastic appreciation of her own ridiculousness. At drama school she had harboured ambitions to become a serious actor and/or musician.
Yet as great as Dobby was, the role did end up derailing Suttie’s standup career. Photograph: Angus Young/Channel 4 Picture Publicity Isy Suttie as Dobby and David Mitchell as Mark Corrigan in Peep Show.
