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It was never in any of our consciousness that it could really happen. So I went and I loved doing the audition, even the little bits I did for that were brilliantly written so it was beyond my wildest dreams that this was what I got offered. I was ready to do anything, I do a little bit of theatre and I was happy to do bits in TV and I was ready to be a jobbing actor again so this transcended any of that. Was Russell T Davies the main draw? Yeah and the amount of people that said "Was it a conscious decision to do a Russell T Davies drama" and I said "oh yes, it's that easy! " It just came up and it was amazing. I got offered a couple of jobs that I had to say no to in order to do this. They were really lovely and I was really happy to do them but this took precedence over anything else really. What were your first thoughts when you read the script? I absolutely loved it. I got the first two episodes to read and I loved them and thought, 'this is going to be amazing, what a wonderful thing to do 16 years after Queer as Folk'.
Julie Hesmondhalgh as Trish Winterman in Broadchurch W hen Julie Hesmondhalgh left Coronation Street in 2014, there was a fear that she may go the way of a million soap actors. As the transgender cafe worker Hayley Cropper, Hesmondhalgh proved that she had talent to burn but, after 17 years in one role, it was hard to see her doing anything else. Yet the strengths of Hesmondhalgh's performance in the soap – good on detail, armed with a quiet resolve and a dollop of empathy – showcased skills that were highly transferable. While still appearing in Coronation Street, she starred in a stage version of Simon Armitage's haunting Black Roses: the Murder of Sophie Lancaster (later remade for the BBC). Black Roses was a poetic account of the brutal real-life story of a Lancashire teenager who was kicked to death by a gang of thugs for looking different. As Sophie's mother, Hesmondhalgh gave a beautiful account of half-metabolised grief and proved that she had an ear for Armitage's spare but disarmingly visceral verse.
Julie Hesmondhalgh as Trish in season three of Broadchurch. She might be playing a rape victim but Julie Hesmondhalgh is quite clear that her experiences as Broadchurch's Trish Winterman are not real. "When you play a part like this – and I seem to have ended up playing quite a few parts where the character is going through something really, really hard and upsetting – my thinking on it has always been to be mindful that there are always people who are actually going through this for real, " the one-time Coronation Street favourite says. "It always seems a little bit disrespectful to talk about how traumatic it was for me to be on a TV set pretending to go through it. Julie says she was 'chuffed' to be offered the role of Trish without auditioning. "I've always got a real handle on doing my absolute best to represent what someone's going through but not allowing myself to go into that sort of slightly indulgent world of 'it was very hard for me' because it's hard for the people who are actually going through it right at this very second. "
She becomes like everyone does in some ways, a victim to Henry's actions in terms of a trickledown effect of the little business that Henry has with Cleo's son, Adam, which implodes in episode five as you see the effects of what they are doing. That starts a whole conversation about what children can access online. Russell wrote a sort of addendum to that, a 10 minute short called Screwdriver [ which will be released online after episode five has aired], a two-hander between Cleo and Adam where she grills him about when he first saw porn and what he has seen. Cleo has been drifting along with a certain amount of naivety about what he has been exposed to, but a friend has shown her what's on the internet and she is shocked to the core about what she sees. It was a fascinating part to play because on the outside Cleo seems a bit like a character in a gay drama who is very comfortable with men's sexuality and very involved in that world. However, she is also a person struggling with her own aging and sexuality.
For her performance on screen, she won a Royal Television Society Award. Julie Hesmondhalgh in Coronation Street S ince then, she has proved her versatility, most notably in Cucumber, Russell T Davies's underrated Channel 4 series about a gay man trying to make sense of being middle aged and suddenly single in modern Manchester. As his sister, Cleo, Hesmondhalgh showed comic timing and a fair amount of fight as she tried to protect her children from the invasive sexuality of the internet age. Cucumber was not a success, despite some very strong reviews, and the audience figures proved to be negligible. I ndeed you could argue that, following this, Hesmondhalgh was in danger of falling off the radar. A role in last year's Happy Valley proved unsatisfactory (in an otherwise excellent series) with Hesmondhalgh reduced to playing the shrewish and, ultimately, adulterous wife of hapless killer John Wadsworth (Kevin Doyle). Julie Hesmondhalgh with Kevin Doyle, in Happy Valley Credit: Ben Blackall H er finest work until now has been in the theatre, most notably in Wit, a revival of Margaret Edson's play about a woman dying from ovarian cancer, which played at Manchester's Royal Exchange early in 2016.
It is an issue we are so scared to examine and so, yeah, slips under the radar. I watch what you do, and I feel like you take work on with a sense of responsibility – as well as having a laugh. It was great that you got an award for Wit at Manchester's Royal Exchange, and I loved the dynamic between you and the director. The people make the work, don't they? He must feel the same about you. Julie: Oh yeah, I love Raz Shaw, the director of Wit. It was great for me to work with someone I could shout at! We had some major stand-offs during rehearsals for Wit, but it always felt safe and funny. You know when you can rip the piss out of each other, but there's an underlying deep love and respect. I don't work well where there's any status bullshit going on really. It unnerves me. I think I struggle with status, as a woman from a working-class background. Half-chippy-as-hell, half ever-so-grateful-for-the-opportunity. It was ace to work with someone who gets me. And, in terms of the responsibility of the work, I do take that on, but I'm always mega aware that there are people going through (insert issue here) for real, so I try not to be too much of a wanker about the process and how terribly hard it is to play these parts.