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"We absolutely adored My Mad Fat Diary when it hit E4 earlier this year, so we were thrilled when Sharon Rooney got nominated for a Scottish BAFTA (alongside Ford Kiernan and Peter Mullan) for her role as Rae. Given that this is her first major acting role, it&amp;#039;s a pretty big achievement - and also probably a rather strange experience. We wanted to get a bit of an idea what it&amp;#039;s like being nominated for one of those famous gongs, so we rang up Sharon to talk about period skirts, pyjamas, oinking and much, much more ahead of the ceremony on Sunday. Read on for her 10 BAFTA tips and tricks!  1. Check it really is you that has been nominated. &amp;quot;It was kind of weird [being nominated],&amp;quot; Sharon said. &amp;quot;It was one of those moments where you go, &amp;#039;Is that actually me, or is that someone else with the same name?&amp;#039; It was really weird.&amp;quot; 2. Star in a show that deals with mental health issues really, really, really well. Sharon was very humble about this, even though her portrayal of Rae is fantastic. &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t take all the credit,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s a credit to the team and the show and everyone at Tiger and all the crew and all the other cast members that we have got it right and we&amp;#039;ve done it with enough sensitivity for people to be able to relate to it. It&amp;#039;s such an honour, really, that people have responded the way that they have.&amp;quot; 3. Work with a lovely cast. Sharon&amp;#039;s already filmed the second series of My Mad Fat Diary - and no, she doesn&amp;#039;t know yet when it&amp;#039;s going to be on - and she told us it was &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; being back with the rest of the cast. &amp;quot;It felt like we&amp;#039;d never been away,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;Within an hour we&amp;#039;d had all the hugs and &amp;#039;Oh, I missed you&amp;#039;, and then we were back to bickering about what was better for lunch, who was talking too much, who was on the phone too much. We are just like a gang. I always say we are like brothers and sisters because we bicker, we play tricks on each other, we&amp;#039;re always having fun, but we protect each other. We&amp;#039;re always there for each other, which is so nice. Even when we&amp;#039;re not filming, we&amp;#039;ll text, we&amp;#039;ll keep in touch, we&amp;#039;ll meet up. It&amp;#039;s so nice, and I think it comes across on the screen when we do gang stuff, because we look like we genuinely like each other, which we do!&amp;quot; 4. Embarrassment is probably worth it if it helps you towards a BAFTA nomination. Sharon is on a show that isn&amp;#039;t afraid of stomping all over taboos, but she actually doesn&amp;#039;t find it that hard to film. &amp;quot;Even with the masturbation stuff, the stuff that&amp;#039;s come up this year, for me doing it I never ever felt worried or anxious or scared,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;And then you sit and watch it at home and you go, &amp;#039;Ah, that&amp;#039;s really not something that&amp;#039;s the average day at work!&amp;#039; But when you&amp;#039;re doing it you&amp;#039;re so wrapped up in these worlds that you go, &amp;#039;Yeah, this would happen to her&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s only when I watch it back and when people like yourself say, &amp;#039;How was it to do that?&amp;#039; that you go, &amp;#039;Oh, yeah&amp;#039;. It was actually fine!&amp;quot; On the other hand, that doesn&amp;#039;t mean Sharon has been immune from embarrassment - especially when it came to filming that infamous &amp;#039;mega period&amp;#039; scene. &amp;quot;We had two skirts - one obviously with Rae&amp;#039;s mega-period, and one without,&amp;quot; she explained. &amp;quot;But I forgot, so I was walking around this city centre with that skirt on. People kept looking at me and I&amp;#039;m going, &amp;#039;They&amp;#039;re not looking at me because they know me, because the show hasn&amp;#039;t even been out yet, why is everyone looking at me?&amp;#039; And then a guy took a photo. I said to one of the security guys, &amp;#039;He&amp;#039;s taking photos of my bum and I&amp;#039;m a bit uncomfortable with that&amp;#039;. And he went, &amp;#039;Sharon, can you go to costume, right now? I think you&amp;#039;ve had an accident&amp;#039;. Obviously the security guards don&amp;#039;t know what we&amp;#039;re filming. He was so embarrassed! He was like, &amp;#039;We&amp;#039;ll just get a lady over here and we&amp;#039;ll sort this out&amp;#039;. I was like, &amp;#039;What is wrong with you?&amp;#039; And then I got to costume and the costume guys were laughing - &amp;#039;Yeah, you&amp;#039;ve got the mega-period skirt on&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; But, you know, BAFTA nomination.  5. Play a character based on a real person (who happens to be really nice.) Sharon is playing a character inspired by the real Rae Earl... which is always going to be a bit daunting. But it turns out Real-Rae couldn&amp;#039;t be happier. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t have any brothers or sisters but I imagine if I had a big sister, it would be the same kind of relationship,&amp;quot; Sharon said. &amp;quot;We didn&amp;#039;t speak when the first series was filming, and that was because she didn&amp;#039;t want me to carry and be her - I know that sounds silly, but the Rae I&amp;#039;ve created is my spin on Rae. It&amp;#039;s not a direct portrayal of her. We met recently but we&amp;#039;ve been Skypeing for the last year and we phone each other a lot, because she lives in Tasmania, so we&amp;#039;ve only just met up last week for the first time.  &amp;quot;But she&amp;#039;s amazing and she&amp;#039;s always there if I&amp;#039;m worried or I don&amp;#039;t know how to play a scene or I need some guidance in life or anything to do with the show, she&amp;#039;s always there. I&amp;#039;m so lucky because she didn&amp;#039;t have to be like that and she doesn&amp;#039;t have to be so kind towards me, because it must be so strange for her. Even though it&amp;#039;s not her exactly, it&amp;#039;s still her name and based on her real diaries, so it must be strange.&amp;quot; The only thing is, Rae now has the perfect way to end an argument. &amp;quot;She just keeps shouting BAFTA at me!&amp;quot; Sharon revealed. &amp;quot;If I try and argue about anything she goes, &amp;#039;Well, you&amp;#039;ve got a BAFTA nomination, so&amp;#039;. She just ends the sentence! And I can&amp;#039;t argue because I can&amp;#039;t go, &amp;#039;No, I&amp;#039;m not!&amp;#039; I&amp;#039;ve realised that it&amp;#039;s on Sunday and I am actually going. It&amp;#039;s just so weird.&amp;quot; 6. Pick out an outfit. Well in advance. And always have a safety dress. &amp;quot;I am so stressed about an outfit!&amp;quot; Sharon told us. &amp;quot;You know when you see people going, &amp;#039;Oh, I was so stressed about an outfit&amp;#039; and you go, &amp;#039;Why? There are so many shops! Go to a shop!&amp;#039; I am never one of those people that stresses about clothes - I just wear what I want, whenever I want. But with this I&amp;#039;m a bit like, &amp;#039;Agh!&amp;#039; And I wore my safety dress. I got a dress that I loved and I was dead comfy in it, so I was saving it for ages, and when I got the BAFTA Breakthrough Award, I wore it there, because I thought, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m never going to be at another BAFTA event, never mind this year, probably never, so I&amp;#039;m going to wear my safety dress&amp;#039;. And my mum kept saying, &amp;#039;That&amp;#039;s your safety dress!&amp;#039; And I was like, &amp;#039;I know, but it&amp;#039;s BAFTA Breakthrough!&amp;#039; And now I have no safety dress and it&amp;#039;s on Sunday. I don&amp;#039;t know what to do.&amp;quot; 7. Have an outfit back-up plan, preferably involving pyjamas. Sharon has discovered that she is very discerning when it comes to dresses. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a company on Twitter who are helping me,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re doing everything they can and they keep sending these gorgeous dresses, but I&amp;#039;ve turned out to be the pickiest person in the world and I have no time to be picky. I&amp;#039;m being so picky! My agent keeps phoning me, because I&amp;#039;d normally just go to Primark or the high street or wherever, but he&amp;#039;s like, &amp;#039;You can&amp;#039;t, because what if somebody&amp;#039;s wearing the same dress?&amp;#039; So I don&amp;#039;t know how celebrities do this all the time. It&amp;#039;s so stressful.&amp;quot; However, Sharon has an excellent back-up plan: &amp;quot;I might go in my jammies or a onesie.&amp;quot; There&amp;#039;s just one problem - no-one is discouraging her. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s the bad thing,&amp;quot; she joked. &amp;quot;Every time I say that I expect the person to go, &amp;#039;You can&amp;#039;t do that&amp;#039;, but every single person I&amp;#039;ve said it to goes, &amp;#039;Do it! Do it!&amp;#039;&amp;quot; So, don&amp;#039;t be surprised if Sharon&amp;#039;s rocking something unusual on Sunday. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll get my hair and make-up done and I&amp;#039;ll just put on my jammies,&amp;quot; she said.  8. Don&amp;#039;t expect to win - just be happy about your nomination. Sharon told us she hasn&amp;#039;t even thought about how she&amp;#039;ll celebrate if she wins. &amp;quot;I am so honoured and chuffed to be nominated, and I know people say that all the time but to be nominated with those two guys who I have looked up to literally as long as I can remember, I feel like I have won in some ways,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;It can&amp;#039;t get better than this. And I know that everyone says that, but I genuinely mean it. Because when I got to work with Ford at the beginning of this year, it was one of the best experiences I&amp;#039;ve ever had. And then at BAFTA Breakthrough you get to pick people that you look up to in the industry, and Peter Mullan was on my list. So I honestly don&amp;#039;t know what I&amp;#039;m going to do if I win! I don&amp;#039;t think I will win, but if I did, I don&amp;#039;t know what would happen.&amp;quot; 9. Come up with a deal with your best friend that means if you don&amp;#039;t win, it might be a relief. Sharon told us she doesn&amp;#039;t even know if she&amp;#039;ll get up on stage if she does win on Sunday. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll probably do that thing where I go, &amp;#039;Yeah, mmhmm, yeah, I&amp;#039;m just going to stay in my seat because I&amp;#039;m not getting up&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;And I&amp;#039;ll probably have on some ridiculous high heels, so I probably will just be stuck.&amp;quot; Even if Sharon doesn&amp;#039;t win, though, there&amp;#039;s a little bit of her that won&amp;#039;t mind that much. &amp;quot;Me and my best friend Anna made a bet last year before Mad Fat Diary came out because I said I would never get a BAFTA and I&amp;#039;d never even be nominated,&amp;quot; she revealed. &amp;quot;We came up with this deal that if I win a BAFTA - and BAFTA knows this, I&amp;#039;ve told them this - I have to oink. Oink. Like I have to go, &amp;#039;oink oink&amp;#039;. I was so sure that it would never happen that we made the deal and our friendship rides on this deal - our nine-year friendship.&amp;quot; Wait, so Sharon could be on stage at the Scottish BAFTAS dressed in pyjamas and oinking? &amp;quot;Yeah, possibly! So, erm, yeah! I don&amp;#039;t know what to do!&amp;quot; 10. Make sure the second series of your show is just as good. After all, when you&amp;#039;re BAFTA-nominated after the first one, you&amp;#039;re going to feel under pressure! &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s so weird because a lot of people have said, &amp;#039;Oh, you can just relax this year&amp;#039; and I go, &amp;#039;Really? Can I?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Sharon admitted. &amp;quot;Last year when it came out, no-one knew it, no-one knew me, if they didn&amp;#039;t like it then they didn&amp;#039;t like it. But now, on Twitter, every single day I get asked about 10, 15 times when the next series is coming so everyone&amp;#039;s kind of waiting on it with anticipation. And I&amp;#039;ve done it now - I can&amp;#039;t go back, I can&amp;#039;t fix it, I can&amp;#039;t change anything. I just have to go, &amp;#039;There you are! I hope you like it!&amp;#039; It&amp;#039;s a bit different this year as well - there&amp;#039;s some big twists and turns, so I just hope everyone will go on the twists and turns with me, with Rae.&amp;quot; The British Academy Scotland Awards 2013 will be held on Sunday (November 17) in Glasgow and will be live-streamed on the website. My Mad Fat Diary is expected to return to E4 early next year. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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