Sheridan Smith in tears over role in new ITV holiday from hell drama in Manchester
23.01.2022 - 22:47
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
BAFTA award-winning actress Sheridan Smith says she was in tears over her latest role in ITV’s gripping new drama No Return.
Written by Brassic, Shameless, Clocking Off and Ordinary Lies writer Danny Brocklehurst, the four-part drama tells the harrowing story an unassuming family who are caught up in a living nightmare whiile holidaying in Turkey.
Sheridan, the star of television dramas Cilla, Mrs Biggs, The C Word and Four Lives, plays a mum whose world spectacularly falls apart when she's left desperately fighting for her son’s freedom.
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Looking forward to an idyllic all-inclusive luxury break in Turkey Kathy Powell, played by Sheridan, and her husband Martin, played by Michael Jibson, are blissfully unaware of the horrific ordeal about to unfold.
The holiday is meant to be a chance to unwind and spend time together until 16-year-old Noah, played by Louis Ashbourne Serkis, accepts a seemingly innocent invitation to a beach party from fellow holidaymaker Rosie, who is staying at the same hotel.
With themes of parental love, guilt, grievances, and the issues around consent for teenagers, No Return is produced by Manchester based executive producer Nicola Shindler (It’s A Sin, Ridley Road), Richard Fee (The Stranger, Safe) and series creator and writer Danny.
Sheridan, 40, who welcomed her son Billy in May 2020, described Kathy as 'a woman with a fire in her belly' as she told the Manchester Evening News and other media that the role of Kathy was like no other that she has taken on before.
"She's a lioness. I've played mums for quite a while but not to this extent," she said.
"This has never been done.