Doctor Who star Mandip Gill has teased her performance in Curfew, describing it as “rage-filled” and “stressed.”
The upcoming six-part drama, which is based on Jayne Cowie’s novel After Dark, takes place in a society where men are bound by The Woman’s Safety Act, which leaves them following a strict overnight curfew.
Despite the tight restrictions, which include mandated ankle tagging, the world is turned upside down after a woman is murdered during the hours of restriction, with police officer Pamela Green (Sarah Parish) called to investigate.
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Ahead of the drama’s launch on Paramount+ this week (October 10), Gill – who played Yasmin Khan on Doctor Who – spoke with the RadioTimes about her “angry” character Sarah, who takes up a job as a government tagger after her former partner breaks the conditions of the curfew.
“There's definitely a stimulus for her [Sarah’s] rage that, I think, maybe has got out of control,” Gill teased. “Personally, when I was doing the work on it, I was like, ‘Why is she so angry?’ She's got a teenager [and] she's stressed, like lots of people, so there's that.
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“But why is she so angry? Why is she so for this? Why is she working in the tagging centre? There's loads of places you could work, but she does something because of something that happened to her. So that's why she's on this rampage.
“They say her ex is coming out. There's a reason he's inside prison. And she's got secrets. So it's just a very stressful [and] exhausting period of her life – especially alongside a teenager. It's not getting any easier, and she's not helping herself.”
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Gill, who is joined in the cast by Bobby Brazier and Larry Lamb, spoke more widely about the concept of the show, sharing that the creative team sought to present the idea from multiple perspectives.
“There are probably lots of different answers, and I think curfew isn't one of [them],” said Gill. “That's what Curfew does, it comes from loads of different points and shows you. Inside this storyline, there are loads of different views… Everyone's got personal views on why they need it.”
Curfew will premiere on Paramount+ on October 10. Doctor Who airs on BBC One in the UK and Disney+ elsewhere. Classic episodes of Doctor Who are available on BBC iPlayer in the UK.
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