We’re seated in a pub forecourt in Vauxhall, a hedge separating us from a noxious South London thoroughfare, and Humans actress Emily Berrington is demonstrating how a robot ‘synth’ would stand up from a chair.
I think Humans has massively improved me as an actor.”
“I literally can’t talk without moving hands”, says Berrington, gesticulating wildly as if to prove the point.
“They gave me a soft rubber bat and said ‘do whatever you want with it’ “, says Berrington.