Nick Mohammed: ‘This is how you make period television now. It’s refreshing’

‘There’s nothing more fun than pretending to fly,” grins Nick Mohammed, who plays a bumbling magical spirit called Billy Blind in Sally Wainwright’s swashbuckling new adventure series, Renegade Nell. As the tiny winged character who grants supernatural powers to the show’s fearless highwaywoman (played by Derry Girls’ Louisa Harland), he’s often shown buzzing around the heroine’s ear, like a jaunty northern bumblebee.