The Channel 4 series is no stranger to using strong language as part of the humour of the show and the first episode of the new season is particularly notable for its use of rude dialogue.
The C-word is utilised a total of two times in episode one which picks up with Marcella (played by Roisin Conaty) taking her driving test.
Writer, creator and star Roisin has spoken out about the use of the word in the series and the limits she had in using strong language.
Speaking to press including Express.co.uk, Roisin said: “We’ve got two ‘c***s’ in this episode which is quite a lot really for one. And then later on in the series there’s a ‘c**t’..then there’s another ‘c**t.’”
She continued: “We’re only allowed three ‘c***s’…I think three’s probably nearly illegal, I think someone’s involved.”
Director Andrew Chaplin chimed in to add: “It gets passed up apparently, it gets passed up to the head of Channel 4 so they have to sign off the ‘c**t’ count. So it goes beyond the comedy department and we just imagine them sitting in their big mahogany boardroom going ‘yes!’ ‘no!’
“But yeah, we managed to get two through on episode one so hooray for us!”
Roisin elaborated: “I think it’s just sparingly, and in the first episode, I try not to have two normally but they are both good, I thought.
“But occasionally in later episodes you’d realise you’d written them too many times.”
One notable difference for the new run is that it is now airing on Channel 4, as the debut series aired on E4.
Roisin explained how this move to a main channel did leave her feeling more pressurised over the second season.
She said: “The pilot went out on Channel 4 then the show got commissioned for E4. They were really good, they let me write what I considered a Channel 4 show for E4, they didn’t sort of try and make me…when I didn’t the first series they didn’t say ‘Can you make it more youth-oriented?’ But yeah, you feel more pressure.
“It’s still quite a niche show, GameFace, comparatively to the main channels, it hasn’t been seen as much so you feel a bit more exposed.”
Andrew also reflected on how the budget for the series had not changed and how filming all the content in a short time frame could be “carnage”.
He explained: “There wasn’t more money and the schedule is mad on this show because Roisin writes such an ambitious script and we have six weeks so it’s five days per episode.
“It’s not like a lot of sitcoms where the situation is the flat or whatever, there’s three or four days of that and then we’re out on the road.
“It’s all shot on location and so to try and get round all these different places and try and push the flashbacks which has always been a thing that is what we feel defines the show, not just bolt them on to the location we’re in, we try and take them into another world and stuff like that and heightened those worlds.”
Andrew added: “To get all that in the time that we’ve got is carnage, it really is.
“We didn’t have any more time, we didn’t have any more money but very aware of the step up to Channel 4 and sort of test ourselves really and keep upping it.
“I hope we’ve kind of upped it.”
GameFace season 2 starts tonight at 10pm on Channel 4.
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