Although the films are different in lots of ways, both see Mulligan take on the role of a folk singer, this time around as one half of a former duo who are unexpectedly reunited on the island of an eccentric lottery winner who was their number one fan.
"I'm not looking for a singing part, gonna put that out there!" she told RadioTimes.com during an exclusive interview. "But I just loved the script so much.
"Like a smell, you just say one song, and immediately you go back to being 21 remembering exactly where you were when you heard it.
"And the script is so full of that. So it's definitely so interesting to explore as a subject. But no, I wasn't hankering after a solo on this one!"
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"We definitely all thought about it," explained Griffiths. "We went for a lot of curries, and would end up saying, 'Yeah, we got to go back to that thing.'"
"So, yeah, it was something that we always discussed, and it became, towards the end, kind of untenable, like, just painful that we would never [do it]."
When it came to eventually sitting down to write the script, Basden explained that the idea for how best to expand the short came together rather quickly.
"And through her just introduced this idea of the backstory, of history, the sense of nostalgia and loss and melancholy that comes with characters looking back at a point in their life – which all of them are in some way doing.
"So I think that was the moment when the film started to to crystallise for us and feel like this could be a lot bigger and better than the short film."
"Really, it was just the same as doing the short, you're just doing it for longer," he laughed.
"[And] with any part, once you feel like you know you're under the skin of that part, then it's kind of interesting seeing him in different situations. And [there's] something quite satisfying about knowing instinctively what this person would say in this situation, even if that's nonsense."
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