The Happy Coupling Coupling‘s Richard Coyle had an interesting first day on set with The Best Man — almost naked in a bath of milk and water, gasping for breath and surrounded by real-life paramedics. “It was a pretty hardcore way to start the shoot. In the scene my character had slashed his wrists and…Continue reading*Coventry Evening Telegraph: The Happy Coupling
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Justine’s eye on a floozie Justine Waddell may look like an old-fashioned girl, but, given the chance, she would rather throw propriety to the wind and let her hair down. Or maybe just cut it all off. The actress portrays the spirited romantic heroine Molly Gibson — the poor lamb’s reputation is almost blackened because…Continue readingThe Daily Mail: Justine’s eye on a floozie (Justine Waddell interview)
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The Evening News: Costume Drama Queen
Costume Drama Queen Keeley Hawes stars in another period piece, but the taxi driver’s daughter is more than happy to keep pulling on the corsets, she tells Ben Atherton. Sunday night is shaping up to be Battle of the Costume Dramas night. While ITV weighs in with Alan Bleasdale’s convention-busting Oliver Twist, the BBC is…Continue readingThe Evening News: Costume Drama Queen
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The team who made Pride and Prejudice into the hottest BBC drama for years are now filming a novel by Mrs Gaskell. David Gritten goes on set to investigate. For more than a century, Elizabeth Gaskell has ranked firmly in the second division of English Victorian novelists, her reputation eclipsed by Dickens, Jane Austen, George…Continue readingThe Sunday Telegraph London: The Arts: Will Molly be as big as Mr Darcy?