BBC The Split star’s 'physical and emotional' challenge in new Paramount+ role
02.12.2023 - 04:53
/ ok.co.uk
From chatty cop Lizzie Maddox in Lewis to Waterloo Road ’s warm-hearted headteacher Kim Campbell, Angela Griffin often shines as likeable characters. However, the former Corrie star takes on the role of a cold, uncaring detective in a new Paramount+ thriller – and admits it was a welcome change. Angela, 47, plays DI Aline Edgeworth, who is investigating multiple murders in an idyllic seaside town in which local doctor Tom (Spencer and Poldark star Jack Farthing) is the main suspect.
After arresting Tom at his own surprise party, Aline clashes with his seemingly perfect wife Beth, played by The Split ’s Annabel Scholey, as shocking discoveries come to light. Speaking about how Aline compares to her previous roles, Angela says, “Everyone wanted to talk to Lizzie Maddox – she was warm. But nobody wants to talk to Aline.
“She is not relatable, she’s not approachable and it really was a challenge! You can’t help reacting and you generally empathise with the other person when you’re working. Aline doesn’t have a range of emotions but she starts in one place and she does end somewhere else. I got to play nothing, which is very rare for me – so it was dead attractive.” Meanwhile, Annabel was put through the “physical and emotional” wringer to play Beth – whose perfect façade begins to crack when her husband is arrested for murder and she begins her own amateur investigation.
“She’s a doctor’s wife, a mother and she’s happily married, she thinks,” Annabel says. “She had a very tricky upbringing and it’s very important that she seems in control. But she’s got a quite interesting dark side, a physical side, that she shares with husband Tom.
They are into certain types of sex together.
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