Anne Mensah, Netflix’s UK VP of content, is one of the streamer’s most senior British executives, overseeing scripted, unscripted, film and acquisitions. “All the content that comes out of the UK slate, I look after in some way,” she explains, before adding: “Or, more specifically, someone better than me looks after it and I cheer in the background.”

It’s a statement typical of Mensah, who is quick to credit the colleagues and creatives she works with both locally and internationally during our hour-long interview, and unashamedly enthusiastic about the content. Before I even hit record, we’re chatting about “The Gentlemen,” which has been renewed for a second season, and “Love Is Blind UK,” which is about to begin as we speak. When I tell her I watched the first four episodes under embargo, Mensah grins conspiratorially: “It just keeps getting better and better.”

“I think I have the easiest job because the UK is just brilliant,” she says. “You’re working with such an incredible base of talent, so the question is how do you give them the space and the platform to do their best work?”

Mensah was hired in 2019 from Sky, where she had worked on high-profile original productions including “Chernobyl” and “Gangs of London.” The streamer had already greenlit a number of U.S.-based British shows — including “The Crown,” “Top Boy” and “Sex Education” — and Mensah was hired as its first U.K.-based commissioner. Her job was to create a steady “drumbeat” of top-notch British content to match the benchmark that had already been set. “I’m not going to lie, it was scary coming back on the back of such beloved shows,” she says. “They show diversity, but they’re also incredibly beloved in the U.K. and then globally. So yeah, that was a little bit of a sweat-inducing thing.”