{"id":68655,"date":"2023-12-02T02:19:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T02:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/?p=68655"},"modified":"2023-12-02T02:19:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T02:19:54","slug":"bbc-the-split-stars-physical-and-emotional-challenge-in-new-paramount-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/tv-movies\/bbc-the-split-stars-physical-and-emotional-challenge-in-new-paramount-role\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC The Split star\u2019s physical and emotional challenge in new Paramount+ role"},"content":{"rendered":"

From chatty cop Lizzie Maddox in Lewis to Waterloo Road \u2019s 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 \u2013 and admits it was a welcome change. <\/p>\n

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 \u2019s Annabel Scholey, as shocking discoveries come to light. <\/p>\n

Speaking about how Aline compares to her previous roles, Angela says, \u201cEveryone wanted to talk to Lizzie Maddox \u2013 she was warm. But nobody wants to talk to Aline.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe is not relatable, she\u2019s not approachable and it really was a challenge! You can\u2019t help reacting and you generally empathise with the other person when you\u2019re working. Aline doesn\u2019t 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 \u2013 so it was dead attractive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Annabel was put through the \u201cphysical and emotional\u201d wringer to play Beth \u2013 whose perfect fa\u00e7ade begins to crack when her husband is arrested for murder and she begins her own amateur investigation. \u201cShe\u2019s a doctor\u2019s wife, a mother and she\u2019s happily married, she thinks,\u201d Annabel says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe had a very tricky upbringing and it\u2019s very important that she seems in control. But she\u2019s got a quite interesting dark side, a physical side, that she shares with husband Tom. They are into certain types of sex together. She\u2019s done a very good job of hiding the person she really is for whatever reason and goes on a journey of self-discovery to work out why she\u2019s made these decisions in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aline is the opposite and when she\u2019s assigned to Tom\u2019s case, she finds that Beth makes her feel \u201cuncomfortable\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAline is single, she has no family, she goes home to nobody \u2013 not even a cat \u2013 because there\u2019s no warmth to her,\u201d Angela reveals. \u201cBeth, who is quite sexually open, really unnerves her. She makes her question what it is that she may be hiding from while she\u2019s at work. She is offended by Beth the second she meets her because she is everything she isn\u2019t. So she feels the best thing to do is to destroy that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Annabel\u2019s intense filming days involved lengthy scripts and intimacy rehearsals for \u201cthe more athletic sex scenes\u201d with her co-star Jack. \u201cIt was like a dance and we knew the steps so we could just focus on the story,\u201d she says. \u201cI had a lot of lines and was colour-coding my scripts. I don\u2019t often learn like that but because [Beth] had so much, I had to.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it came to switching off after a full-on day, Annabel turned to TV. \u201cI have a little cross trainer in my living room so I used to do that and watch Netflix,\u201d the actress, who shares a daughter with actor ex Ciaran McMenamin, says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI re-watch things that I find comforting so I sometimes go down a Downton Abbey spiral because it\u2019s non-threatening and comforting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Angela took a different relaxation route. \u201cAnnabel was in every single day and had a hectic schedule and a massive emotional journey to play, but I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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So the way I wound down was by going into the bar at the hotel with Ben O\u2019Mahoney [who plays DS Mike Pearson] and drinking wine and discussing the details we put into that day,\u201d she laughs. \u201cI just had a great time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Angela managed to get Annabel out on the town however when the cast shot scenes in Italy. \u201cI couldn\u2019t resist that!\u201d Annabel says.<\/p>\n

Annabel and Angela first share the screen when detective Aline crashes Tom\u2019s birthday party and, much like their characters, both stars have differing opinions when it comes to surprise bashes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m about to turn 40 and I don\u2019t think a surprise party would be particularly pleasurable,\u201d Annabel giggles. \u201cI like a party, but I would like to be prepared because I\u2019m a control freak.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Angela can\u2019t get enough of them. \u201cI love a surprise party,\u201d she grins. \u201cNo one can ever surprise me with anything so if someone could pull off a surprise party, I\u2019d be dead chuffed. I am always organising everything, so if I didn\u2019t have to do anything, that would be amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Serial Killer's Wife arrives on Paramount+ on Friday 15th December.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n