Having simply been seen on our screens in BBC’s Riot Women, Joanna Scanlan is now heading up model new thriller, Missed Call.
In the new five-parter, Scanlan stars as single mom Sarah who’s delivered each mum or dad’s worst nightmare when she receives a missed name from her daughter Katie, who’s overseas on a faculty change.
With the native forces showing to not take her issues significantly, Sarah takes issues into her personal palms to seek out out simply what’s occurred to her daughter. The role itself definitely seems like a world away from Scanlan’s role as Beth Thornton in the Sally Wainwright drama, however did it really feel as such when embodying the character?
“It did actually [feel worlds apart], because Beth is depressed,” Scanlan told Radio Times. “She’s a depressed person. And yes, she goes on a journey and kind of finds herself to a certain extent. But I think she’s sensitive, highly intelligent and worried about everything going wrong.
“And you know, she’s in a gloom state. She’s, let’s face it, suicidal and Sarah is the absolute opposite of that.”
Scanlan continued: “She is not somebody who overthinks things. She really goes with her gut, but she’s clever and she’s bright. She’s one of those people who – you know when everybody’s pussy footing around a subject, say. Everybody’s being polite to a certain extent or trying not to offend, and then somebody just says it. Just says ‘What’s going on?’. And she’s that person.
“I really like those people. I think they’re real energisers and, in our society, we need them. We need somebody who’s just going to tell it as it is. And she has a lot of energy. She has a lot of positivity, by nature. She’s got a lot going for her and how somebody like that deals with a crisis is really interesting. And yes, she pushes it sometimes, she goes a bit too far. But essentially, she’s a bit of a heroine to me, that kind of person. I would love to be a bit more direct like that.”
Sherlock star Rupert Graves also added: “I’m glad in the story, she goes too far, because she you have to shake people out of their lethargy and their secrets as well and whatever they’re hiding. You have to break through the barriers of that, yeah? And she does that, and that is kind of heroic.”
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Of course, as we all know Riot Women is about to return for a second season, with sequence creator Wainwright teasing at the time of its renewal: “Oh, that is the place the enjoyable actually begins!”
“We’ve all been so deeply moved by the big, overwhelming, joyous, emotional response to sequence one, and now we’re in a position to take the Riot Women extravaganza onto the subsequent stage!” said the show’s creator, writer, lead director and executive producer. “We hope you’ll all be part of us on the sequence two rollercoaster!”
The synopsis for Missed Call reads: “Set in opposition to the backdrop of a picturesque French village, Missed Call follows single mom Sarah, whose world is upended after receiving a late-night missed name from her teenage daughter, Katie, whereas she’s on a faculty change.
“When Sarah arrives in France, she finds the host family and local authorities disturbingly indifferent to Katie’s disappearance. As Sarah refuses to accept their complacency, her search for her daughter spirals into a gripping and dangerous race against time.”
Missed Call will air on 5 on Monday 13 April at 9pm.
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