She shot to stardom in Call the Midwife and Wolf Hall. Now she’s preparing for a western – set in Yorkshire. Jessica Raine talks approximately Jericho,growing up on a farm and why fame left her ‘espalled’ You half expect Jessica Raine to turn up wearing a corset, or at the very least a pillbox hat. For someone who was told at drama school that she had a “modern face”, and the actor is certainly making a decent living in period drama. It’s the modern roles that have been few; after Call the Midwife she returned to the 1950s once more for the Agatha Christie caper,Partners in Crime. In final year’s Wolf Hall, she skulked in the candlelit corridors of the Tudor court.
Raine is fragile-looking, and but not remotely prim. And she swears quite a lot. “I am avoiding playing things that I’ve done before,” she says on the dangers of typecasting. “I only want to execute period dramas whether there’s a fresh remove, so they have to be really fucking great.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com