Take a First Look at Sharon Horgan’s New Series, ‘Youth’

Because Horgan kept rewriting scripts even as they were shooting, Friend had to commit to the part and then roll with it. “There was a fair bit of ad-libbing and a fair bit of corpsing,” he says with a grin, using the British theater term for an uncontrollable fit of giggles that breaks the flow of performance (the kind of blooper nowadays often saved as bonus material). “Once she’d seen us all inhabit the characters she’d imagined, I think Sharon then went back and fed some of…