Charly Clive
- Actor, writer, comedian and producer
Press clippings Page 3
Britney review
Razor-sharp wit and humour delivered with real heart and flawless accents.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 26th April 2019Britney, Soho Theatre review
Finding the funny in a brain tumour.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 22nd April 2019After last week's shagathon, Marnie (Charly Clive) renews her pursuit of healthy balance. An unflappable new therapist helps, but what's the difference between intrusive thoughts and genuine sexual attraction? A period of celibacy seems in order: "If you see me near anyone's genitals, smack them out my hands."
Ellen E. Jones, The Guardian, 20th February 2019Charlie Clive interview
We caught up with Charly to talk about why she wanted to be involved in Pure and how comedy can get people talking.
Hannah Mylrea, NME, 12th February 2019The usual millennial-in-the-city dramedy gets a necessary revamp via this mental health memoir. This week, sex-obsessed Marnie (Charly Clive) makes a new London friend (Joe Cole from Peaky Blinders), who not only helps guide her to a diagnosis but introduces her to felting. And no, that's not a weird sex thing.
Ellen E. Jones, The Guardian, 6th February 2019'Pure' review
An essential comedy that peels away the stigma of mental health.
Hannah Mylrea, NME, 4th February 2019Pure, Channel 4's latest thing to set cats among pigeons, can lay claim to being rather taboo-busting, and is bound to win plaudits. Rightly so, in many ways: it's the interpretation of a book about mental illness - specifically, a form of OCD designated "pure", as the symptoms occur not physically but as mental obsessions, often savagely debilitating. Poor 24-year-old Marnie just happens to see tonguing, furry, sweaty, awful porn-sex between whichever people she's looking at whenever it kicks in. She hates it - knowing something's slightly off with her brain - and she loves it - being 24 in London, and ditto.
It addresses serious, really serious, issues; I just don't know whether they quite mesh yet with the other stated intent: comedy. Newcomer Charly Clive as Marnie is wonderful - surely an instant hit - with her perfect(ly fake) Scots accent and dry jibes, but so far this straddles an uneasy chasm between wryness and horror, and threatens to unseat both pegs.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 3rd February 2019Interview: Charly Clive
"I can relate to the feeling of not understanding your brain"
Emily Harrison, The National Student, 1st February 2019Pure, Channel 4 review - sex, OCD and the single girl
Tormenting thoughts: a triumphant drama series that tackles mental health taboos.
Markie Robson-Scott, The Arts Desk, 31st January 2019Charly Clive interview
Charly Clive, the star of Channel 4's taboo-busting new drama talks about how a brain tumour helped her find her comic voice.
Sarah Carson, i Newspaper, 30th January 2019