Paapa Essiedu brings all the 'priestly bants' to his new role in Channel 4 series Falling ⛪️

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Priestly banter.

[00:00:01]>> Yeah, back priestly banter.

[00:00:02]>> [laughter] >> You know, in episode one your character hears confession from a few of the other characters and I'm thinking Father's got this. Did you fancy it? Did you think when you were doing it you think I could do this. I could do this.

[00:00:14]I think with as as with everything in life there are pros and cons.

[00:00:18]>> [laughter] >> But you seem to take to it. I thought yeah, I'd I'd tell him what my I'd I'd share my sins with him.

[00:00:25]>> What are you thinking? No, I'm not now.

[00:00:27]What are you This is a safe space now.

[00:00:29]>> [laughter] >> All right. What have you got to hide?

[00:00:32]We've only got an hour.

[00:00:33]>> trust me. Um yeah, but exactly the So when you're in the confessional booth and you sit I know that you're only playing a part, but what was that like?

[00:00:42]>> Well, I mean I'm not Catholic or I I wasn't raised Catholic so I've never been in one of those booths before and I kind of like as you know, like you've got an assumption from what it's like when you see it on telly or in films or whatever. They're very small.

[00:00:55]>> they are. Like very small, very claustrophobic.

[00:00:57]>> The mesh, the what the >> is incredibly dramatic. I think, you know. Yeah. Um so again, yeah, there's I suppose there is a feeling of power that comes from going like that.

[00:01:07]>> Yeah. Um yeah, and you've got a mate, haven't you? So so you've sort of senior priest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Adrian Scarborough um plays uh It's great, isn't it? Yeah, he's so brilliant. Yeah, you've got a got a good thing going on with him.

[00:01:18]>> Yeah, yeah, he's so brilliant and it kind of shows the you know, the human side behind it all, you know, we're so used to like seeing like the the kind of various austere, kind of serious side of um I suppose yeah, clerical role. And you have banter, you have banter. Yeah, it's just Priestly banter.

[00:01:34]>> Yeah, back priestly banter.

[00:01:36]>> [laughter] >> Priestly banter, having a glass of wine behind the whatever, yeah.