'With age comes freedom'

Before I started in The Wives, in February, I hadn't had any alcohol since Christmas. I was trying to be really healthy! I co-star with Jo Joyner, who I know well, and my close friend Angela Griffin. We're playing women who have all married brothers from the same family.

- Tamzin Outhwaite

When our characters get together, they drink a lot of wine and, let's just say, when I arrived on set, the research began! When we had finished a day's filming, we would go back and sit in one of our apartments or go to the hotel bar, and get our scripts out for the next day and have a drink. When we weren't on set, the three of us would meet and have cocktails, go to dinner and watch the sun set in the next bay. It was joyful.

I was pinching myself because I was with great people in a beautiful place. I felt really free and liberated because I wasn't at home doing school runs [Tamzin is mum to Flo, 16, and Marnie, 12, with her ex-husband, Miranda actor Tom Ellis].