The creator of new BBC drama Chloe has opened up about how Erin Doherty’s impeccable performance in The Crown played a significant part in her being cast as the lead in the TV series.
In Chloe, Erin plays the character of Becky Green, whose social media obsession with a woman called Chloe Fairbourne (Poppy Gilbert) results in her adopting an alias and becoming embedded in Chloe’s friendship group when she finds out that she has died.
Becky is able to flit between personas with disturbing ease, changing the way she speaks and her mannerisms to convince those around her that she is someone else entirely.
While speaking to Metro.co.uk ahead of the season premiere, the show’s creator Alice Seabright revealed that they had the actor in mind at a very early stage when thinking about who they would want to play the role.
Alice, who previously worked as a director and writer on Sex Edcuation, explained how watching Erin in The Crown as Princess Anne as well as other productions and interviews helped inform them that they were on the right path.
‘I think that [we were] looking for someone who had a chameleonic aspect, so who could sort of play different characters, who could really take on different personas in that way,’ she said.
‘I think Erin has that ability. She’s an incredible voice and character actress and she can really take on someone who has a behaviour and a physicality that’s quite different from herself.’
Alice continued saying that she got a ‘sense of who she was’ by watching Erin’s past performances before reaching out to her about the drama.
‘Erin’s the person we thought of really early on. I’d seen her in The Crown and a few other things, but I’d also watched interviews with her and got a sense of who she was, and there was just something that felt really right,’ she recalled.
‘I basically sent it to her and met her and she did a tape that was amazing. It was very much a process of thinking of her really early on and then basically it being right from the beginning.’
Alice praised the way in which Erin was able to display that there was ‘so much going on underneath’ Becky, despite the character appearing ‘very walled off’.
‘There’s an openness to Erin that I think means you can really access what’s going on for Becky even though the character isn’t open at the beginning of the show. She becomes potentially more so by the end, but that feeling that Erin really gives you an in to what’s going on emotionally for Becky, that was really important,’ the writer said.
The creator recollected how in conversations with Erin during the making of Chloe, the actor outlined her despite to play Becky ‘from a point of empathy’, emphasising how important it was to have an actor ‘who could relate to her in her skin’, despite the character doing things that are ‘very extreme and not condonable’.
Pippa Bennett-Warner plays Livia Fulton in the series, a close friend of Chloe’s who Becky becomes friendly with as Sasha.
During a conversation with Metro.co.uk, Pippa expressed how ‘super lucky’ she felt that she and Erin ‘clicked’ both on and off the screen.
‘She’s just heaven and I feel really fortunate to have been able to work with somebody, to have such a fantastic scene partner. We could just bounce off each other, we just got really lucky I think, because it doesn’t always happen, but it did on this.’
Chloe premieres tonight at 9pm on BBC One and will be available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
Credit: Original article published here.You can read this post on My Celebrity Life.
The creator of new BBC drama Chloe has opened up about how Erin Doherty’s impeccable performance in The Crown played a significant part in her being cast as the lead in the TV series.
In Chloe, Erin plays the character of Becky Green, whose social media obsession with a woman called Chloe Fairbourne (Poppy Gilbert) results in her adopting an alias and becoming embedded in Chloe’s friendship group when she finds out that she has died.
Becky is able to flit between personas with disturbing ease, changing the way she speaks and her mannerisms to convince those around her that she is someone else entirely.
While speaking to Metro.co.uk ahead of the season premiere, the show’s creator Alice Seabright revealed that they had the actor in mind at a very early stage when thinking about who they would want to play the role.
Alice, who previously worked as a director and writer on Sex Edcuation, explained how watching Erin in The Crown as Princess Anne as well as other productions and interviews helped inform them that they were on the right path.
‘I think that [we were] looking for someone who had a chameleonic aspect, so who could sort of play different characters, who could really take on different personas in that way,’ she said.
‘I think Erin has that ability. She’s an incredible voice and character actress and she can really take on someone who has a behaviour and a physicality that’s quite different from herself.’
Alice continued saying that she got a ‘sense of who she was’ by watching Erin’s past performances before reaching out to her about the drama.
‘Erin’s the person we thought of really early on. I’d seen her in The Crown and a few other things, but I’d also watched interviews with her and got a sense of who she was, and there was just something that felt really right,’ she recalled.
‘I basically sent it to her and met her and she did a tape that was amazing. It was very much a process of thinking of her really early on and then basically it being right from the beginning.’
Alice praised the way in which Erin was able to display that there was ‘so much going on underneath’ Becky, despite the character appearing ‘very walled off’.
‘There’s an openness to Erin that I think means you can really access what’s going on for Becky even though the character isn’t open at the beginning of the show. She becomes potentially more so by the end, but that feeling that Erin really gives you an in to what’s going on emotionally for Becky, that was really important,’ the writer said.
The creator recollected how in conversations with Erin during the making of Chloe, the actor outlined her despite to play Becky ‘from a point of empathy’, emphasising how important it was to have an actor ‘who could relate to her in her skin’, despite the character doing things that are ‘very extreme and not condonable’.
Pippa Bennett-Warner plays Livia Fulton in the series, a close friend of Chloe’s who Becky becomes friendly with as Sasha.
During a conversation with Metro.co.uk, Pippa expressed how ‘super lucky’ she felt that she and Erin ‘clicked’ both on and off the screen.
‘She’s just heaven and I feel really fortunate to have been able to work with somebody, to have such a fantastic scene partner. We could just bounce off each other, we just got really lucky I think, because it doesn’t always happen, but it did on this.’
Chloe premieres tonight at 9pm on BBC One and will be available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
Credit: Original article published here.You can read this post on My Celebrity Life.