I’ve spent quite a lot of my time not wearing any makeup on screen, so it was nice to be able to do that. It was nice to be glamorous for a change. There are also all the delicious trappings of a period piece-the sets, the costumes! Is there something that makes you feel like you’ve truly entered her world?
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So I feel like a lot of responsibility and kind of pressure to make sure that I'm being truthful and honest.
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There's a huge responsibility when you are portraying human emotion, because you want to connect with the audience and if you are portraying something that they've experienced or they've been through and you do it badly, or you do it without real humanity or truthfulness, then they're not going to appreciate that. I think when you're paying someone, there's actual factual evidence about them that makes your job slightly easier because you have things to hang your hat on, and you know that you can't stray too far from that. NICK WALL Is there something different for you about playing characters who are based on real people and characters who are fictional? Is there a different type of responsibility?
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Then, it puts you in a position when you are acting the scenes to give yourself artistic license to interpret the material for the audience. I listened to tapes of her-I was very lucky to get hold of of interviews for her book that was ghost written-and I had access to a lot of things that were important to read and understood. Also, I wouldn't say that she was a pathological liar, but she was one of these people who lied more freely than she told the truth in a way, and so she fabricated her own story quite a lot. There have been people who she's fascinated for years and years, and that means, luckily, there are quite a lot of books written about her, but you do have to take them with kind of with a pinch of salt because they all have an agenda and an opinion about who she was. I mean, there's so many people have been really fascinated by her, like Sarah Phelps, who wrote this script. Do we treat people differently? Or do we all still love the drama and the mess and the gossip and saying, "Oh, I'd never do that.” How much do you research the actual history of a character like this before you play her? If you ask yourself how you judge people in the public eye or how you judge politicians when there's any salacious gossip about them… judgment, unfortunately, is an inherent part of our character. I think it can give you that separation but can also show that we haven't actually changed that much, really. I was really interested in the story of a woman's sexuality and how she expresses that and how that's viewed by the outside.Ĭhristopher Raphael There’s also something so interesting about scandals that shocked previous generations and maybe wouldn’t play out the same way today. And then I found out that she was thinking of Paul Bettany to play Ian, and I thought it would be an interesting and exciting thing to do. And I was like, "I don't think I can do that, really." And then I read it and I was like, "Oh, she's brilliant though." And then I met Anne Sewitsky, who's the director, and she wanted to make something really interesting and dark.
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I don't want to play someone who's posh." That was my original thought. Here, she tells T&C about why the disgraced duchess was an appealing choice, and how she prepared to portray one of England’s most infamous women.
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In the new series A Very British Scandal, airing now on Prime Video, Claire Foy plays Margaret Campbell, the late Duchess of Argyll whose real-life 1963 divorce-and the revealing trial that came along with it-shocked Britain, and even today, decades later and amidst much less stringent social mores, makes for some very compelling TV.įor Foy, who’s played the Queen on The Crown as well as many very fictional characters, it wasn’t a role to be taken on lightly.