‘Peaky Blinders’ star Sophie Rundle: ‘Even my mom’ asks about the movie
10.05.2024 - 19:55
/ nypost.com
‘Mare of Easttown’ and I loved what Kate Winslet did in that, so she was kind of my North Star,” Rundle, 36, told The Post. “But Clarice Starling, or any of these iconic female detectives in the canon of this genre… those were the references I had on my Pinterest mood board.”Premiering Monday, May 13, on Britbox, the British crime drama is set in the fictional town of Waterside, England.
It follows Joanna Marshall (Rundle), a police officer investigating an unidentified man who was found dead in a parking garage after a flood. At first, it’s assumed that the natural disaster killed him, until it’s revealed that he was dead for three days before the event.
“I don’t often get a lot of content like that. I get a lot of period dramas and more constrained stuff — which I love doing,” said Rundle, who’s also known for HBO’s “Gentleman Jack.”“But it was so exciting to get the scripts, I kept having to double-check that it was definitely my character doing all the heroics! I thought she was interesting, I liked that she had this uncomfortable relationship to her pregnancy, and she’s a little bit reckless and very determined.”Joanna is married to a fellow detective, Pat (played by Rundle’s real-life husband Matt Stokoe), and because she’s seven months pregnant, he’s not enthusiastic about her being out in the field.
“It was a bit of a fluke,” Rundle said, about how she ended up working with Stokoe, with whom she has a 3-year-old son (she’s currently pregnant with their second child). “He was maybe going to be doing a show for the same production company, and that got changed around.