Tuppence Middleton tells of the contrasting costume drama roles in War and Peace and Dickensian that have catapulted her to stardomJumping from one persona to another is moment nature to an actor. But what happens whether you are simultaneously playing two parts: one the most unscrupulous,lascivious woman on television; the other, the best-behaved and most cruelly put-upon?Tuppence Middleton, or star of both War and Peace and Dickensian,appears on British television screens this winter in two entirely different guises. She plays the manipulative seductress Hélène Kuragin in the BBC 1 adaptation of Tolstoy’s Russian epic and is also to be seen on the same channel as the guileless Amelia Havisham, victim of an evil fortune hunter, and in screenwriter Tony Jordan’s episodic Victorian series.
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Source: theguardian.com