Cassidy actress cat & mouse
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INTERVIEW: Elaine Cassidy
by Shabana Adam |
And you seem to have juggled both being a mother and an actress very well, you even worked up until the final stages of your first pregnancy, do you think you’ll ever give up acting to be a full-time mum?
No, I can’t! Never say never but no (laughs). I love my job and I love my family, and I love my life. And I’m not defined by one thing - I’m not just a wife, I’m not just a daughter, I’m not just a sister, I’m not just Irish, I’m not just an actress, I’m not just a mother, you know, I’m all those things. And it’s all those things contributed together that make up who I am. So, no, I can’t see it happening!
You’re currently playing Katherine in the BBC1 Period drama The Paradise – for anyone who hasn’t seen it can you tell us a little bit about the drama?
It’s set in a department store – the first department store that was set up in England in the North Easy. So, it’s a very new concept – it’s set in 1870. The people in this town have never experienced shopping in this way before.
Before it was kind of more out of necessity that you would shop. It’s tapping into, more so, women’s desires and trying to get them to indulge than men. It’s very loosely based on Emile Zola’s The Ladies Paradise and it’s just really interestin
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Right from its opening scene – where a suspect is chased under a bus and his head squashed like a jam doughnut – No Offence marked itself out as a gripping cop show like no other. The brainchild of Shameless’ Paul Abbott, it smashes together lightning-paced police drama with dark comedy and lashings of soap opera. At the centre is impulsive detective constable Dinah Kowalska, played by Elaine Cassidy, who we caught up with on the phone ahead of the second series beginning tonight (January 4th) on Channel 4. Key to No Offence’s success, she told us, was the Paul Abbott factor.
“It is like when you really like a band and you are waiting for their next album,” she said. “No Offence felt like his next album after Shameless, even though he has written films and stuff since. Paul’s writing is unique. It is just about three degrees left of reality.”
Another draw for Cassidy was the chance to do something different after two series of The Paradise followed by Brian Friel’s Fathers and Sons at the Donmar.
“It was the same era and I thought ‘bloody hell, I’m going to get stuck in a corset’. I am always looking for something that is different to what I have just played. I want to keep getting better and be challenged.”
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