EXCLUSIVE: When Kneecap actress Jessica Reynolds was chosen to play the iconic role of Emma Harte in the Channel 4 reboot of Barbara Taylor Bradford’s seminal rags-to-riches tale A Woman of Substance — about a young woman’s rise from servitude at the turn of the 20th century to become the world’s wealthiest woman in the 1970s — she vowed “to fight any period drama cliches at all times.”
Reynolds tells us that she was determined to fight anything that “felt like it wasn’t coming from her guts and the true circumstances that she was going through.”
She wasn’t interested in having “numbed tears coming down my face that just looked beautiful on a closeup shot. I’m not interested in that kind of acting. I don’t feel very moved by that,” she insists.
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