Breathtaking star Joanne Froggart on heartbreaking new Covid drama - 'I cried reading the script'

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The three-part ITV drama, Breathtaking, has been nothing short of a huge success, gripping the nation with a fictional version of what frontline life was like for NHS doctors at the height of the Covid pandemic. However, the emotional storyline is closer to the truth than most would care to believe, with the day-to-day life of Dr Rachel Clarke heavily leaned on from events that happen in her book of the same title.

Joanne Froggatt has returned to TV screens this week, starring in the new ITV drama Breathtaking, focusing on what it was like being on the NHS frontline during the Covid-19 pandemic. The actress plays an NHS doctor who leads her team on a desperate struggle to deal with the first wave of patients, infected by the virus.

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A new drama revealing the harrowing reality of what it was like for doctors and medical professionals during the first wave of the pandemic is being aired on ITV. The first episode of the three-part series will be shown on TV screens tonight (Monday, February 19) and follows acute medicine consultant Dr Abbey Henderson, played by Joanne Froggatt, as she struggles with her team to deal with the first wave of Covid-19 patients.

The coronavirus pandemic may still be fresh in the minds of some but almost four months on from the first lockdown in March 2020, ITV is releasing its latest drama which follows NHS medics during that period.

Joanne Froggatt is currently starring in the new ITV series Breathtaking, as Dr Abbey Henderson, an NHS doctor working during the Covid pandemic.The three-part drama series launched today (19 February) and is just one of the huge TV roles the actress has secured over her impressive career. Speaking about her new role, Joanne told Mail Online: "Soon after I began reading the first episode I started to cry.That’s never happened to me before in 27 years reading scripts. Nothing I’ve been asked to be a part of has affected me, or shocked me, in the way this story did." Joanne, 43, has also starred in TV shows The Bill, Bad Girls, Robin Hood, Liar and Sherwood, along with being the voice of Wendy in the kids show Bob The Builder.

ITV's upcoming medical drama, Breathtaking, gives us a glimpse into the real-life struggles faced by NHS medics all across the country during the Covid-19 pandemic that gripped the globe at the start of the decade. The series focuses on Dr Abbey Henderson, an acute medicine consultant, and her team as they grapple with the initial outbreak of the deadly virus and a shortage of supplies.The show portrays the tough choices that healthcare professionals had to make during this time.The drama highlights the lack of proper PPE, infection rates, and how hospitals managed before and during the lockdown imposed by then Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Downton Abbey star Joanne Froggatt stars in ITV1's new coronavirus drama Breathtaking, which follows hospital consultant Abby as she works on the frontline during the pandemic.The three-part drama looks at how NHS workers in one hospital cope with the national crisis, facing shortages of personal protective equipment whilst caring for their colleagues who contract the deadly virus. Ahead of the intense filming process, Joanne, 43, underwent two days in a medical boot camp to prepare for the emotionally-taxing role.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Gael García Bernal and Renate Reinsve (“The Worst Person in the World”) star as lovers caught in an unusual bind in Italian director Piero Messina’s unconventional sci-fi film “Another End,” which is competing in Berlin. Set in a near-future when a new technology exists that can put the consciousness of a dead person back into a living body in an attempt to ease the grief of separation, the English-language film sees Bernal play Sal, a man who loses his wife. Reinsve plays Zoe, the woman who rents her body for the implantation of Bernal’s wife’s consciousness.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Argentine director Luján Loioco (“About a Woman,” “The Girl with Yellow Heels”) is prepping her third feature film, “Queen of the Woods” (“Reina del bosque”), starring Chile’s venerable Alfredo Castro, seen most recently in Pablo Larrain’s Oscar-nominated “El Conde,” and rising Argentine actress Delfina Chaves (“Máxima,” “Ringo”). The story takes place in a cabin set against the snow-covered Patagonian mountains and is described as a “neo-horror feminine film that explores the failed relationship between a pregnant woman and her dying father.” Through the gripping mechanisms of thriller and neo-horror, the film delves deep into the theme of grief while posing unsettling reflections on the complexities of motherhood.