(funky music) - [Speaker] "The Gold" provided quite a kind of fascinating era or period to put onto camera at the early to mid 1980s.

- 40 years ago really is period drama and everything looked different 40 years ago from the clothes people wore, the cars people drove.

So it's a massively complicated job and the art departments have really had to be stretched to achieve that.

- All real, this.

- I mean it was a filthy decade.

Smoky, shabby, technology was at this weird stage where things were progressing but like in a ugly fashion and everything was a little bit grubby, but there's something strangely romantic about that and nostalgic.

- It was actually quite cool back then.

The '80s has a lot of style, I think.

I quite like it.

I love the sets and the design and everything.

'cause it completely immerses you into that world.

- Every time I step on set, it's kind of hard to believe that they've dressed it.

The amount of detail that is in there is extraordinary.

- It's forever intoxicating and attractive, the 1980s London.

It's never not fun to dip back into that and the ridiculousness of that time.

Ah Jesus.

- You look great, Judy.

- Thank you, Brian.

- Everything's quite old and very floral.

A lot of the things have been like, oh, I would've seen this in my grandma's house, or I've seen this in my mom's.

It feels very familiar to me, but quite sort of sophisticated.

- In Kenny's house in particular in his living room, I remember that it was just brilliant, the set design.

It was horrible.

There was a bar, which is very southeast England.

- This is a simple time.

I think that's really reflective in how the art department have decorated the sets, how the costume department have pressed us.

And it feels like a really true reflection of the '80s.

- It's that period, it's the '80s.

Everything's just that little bit more brash and a little bit more sort of self-assured.

- I think it's so bad, it's good.

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