The Doctor Foster star on why she collapsed backstage last year, and her game-changing new role in Gentleman Jack
The actor Suranne Jones, a can-doer from Greater Manchester who hoiked herself up from regional musicals and the soaps to become a prized figure on stage and in prestige British telly, is a proactive and restless character. At 40, Jones says, she will sometimes look in the mirror and get the uncanny sense of her own mother staring back: “same crooked nose, same big eyes like a pixie”. But she has the lively energy of a teenager and sets a brisk walking pace, skipping along the pavement from the photography studio to the nearest pub, talking at 1.5 speed. Jones is the first person I’ve met who, after our conversation, will record and email me voice notes (like mini podcasts, or extra-credit homework assignments) that expand on earlier talking points.
It’s been a wild few years, the actor acknowledges. She got married in 2014, had a son in 2016. As for her work: “Betrayal! Murder! Paedophilia! Betrayal!” is how Jones summarises what looked, from the outside, like a flawless professional run from 2015 to 2018. She was fantastic as the lead in the BBC noir Doctor Foster, the story of a small-town GP made icily vengeful by the discovery of her husband’s infidelity. (That was the betrayal.) Then she was a mother who’d lost a daughter in Lennie James’s award-winning drama Save Me (murder), and after that another mother whose daughter had been abused in a West End production of Bryony Lavery’s Frozen (paedophilia). Amid all this, she won a Bafta for the first series of Doctor Foster and filmed a second (more betrayal).
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