The Interview: actor Rob Delaney opens up about grief and the death of his two-year-old son
"I feel a responsibility to show people what grief looks like." Interview by Decca Aitkenhead
PIP FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE. GROOMING: EMMA LEON
The Sunday Times, December 30 2018, 12:01am
The thing everyone always says about Catastrophe is how breathtakingly real it feels. Channel 4's sitcom about a couple who discover they're expecting a baby after a six-night fling, get married and make a go of family life together in Hackney, east London, is so instantly recognisable to any parent or spouse that after three series the show has become a sensation in more than 130 countries. The portrait of a late-thirtysomething domestic relationship, with all its low-grade provocations and unmanageable demands, can at times look more like documentary than drama, compounded by the fact its co-writers and co-stars, Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, play characters called Sharon and Rob.
At a public screening of the new Catastrophe series earlier this month, Delaney seemed exactly…