I often take on the personality of whoever I’m playing. I’m not a nervous person but as the shoot went on, I developed anxiety and started worrying about silly little things like getting on a train. She doesn’t follow her instincts and has panic attacks. Joy is a nervous wreck, very highly strung and does everything by the book. Joanna plays my boss, Detective Inspector Vivienne Deering, I play Detective Sergeant Joy Freers and Elaine is Detective Constable Dinah Kowalska. No Offence is set in a run-down cop shop in Manchester. Team Roach – her dad Jeff and mum Chris – are her unofficial entourage, while her brother Ian and sister Katie, who have both worked in the police force, gave her tips for her latest role.Ī Rada graduate who trained alongside fellow wunderkind James Norton (best known for ITV’s Grantchester), Alex talks to us about her meteoric career, her passion for politics, her club-promoter boyfriend Jack Scales and her desire to emulate her comedy heroine Julie Walters.Īlex (right) with co-star Elaine Cassidy in No Offence
If it does, there’s no danger Alex will start believing her own hype. The anarchic eight-part series looks set to do for the Ammanford-born actress what Shameless did for the careers of James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff. This week she stars alongside Joanna Scanlan and Elaine Cassidy in No Offence, an outrageously dark and funny Channel 4 drama penned by Shameless and State of Play writer Paul Abbott about three detectives on the trail of a serial killer in Manchester.
I felt different – I’ve grown up doing TVĪlex, 27, hasn’t stopped working since landing a role in the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm at the age of 11. Led by vocalist Courtney LaPlante, Spiritbox is one of the most talked-about bands on the scene right now.At drama school everyone else had done theatre. (Both Spiritbox and Papa Roach will participate in the Sick New World festival In las Vegas on May 13, by the way). Spiritbox, meanwhile, has ridden a wave of buzz the past couple of years through the release of its debut full-length, Eternal Blue, and attention from all corners that has pushed the band out to its own sold-out headlining tour. The Planet Zero album debuted in the Top 5 on the Billboard 200 Chart and the Official UK Albums Chart, and at #1 on six other Billboard charts including Top Album Sales, Rock, Hard Rock, and Alternative Albums Charts.Īll this to say: Shinedown continues to be a major force in the scene, and this tour should be a great time.Īs for Papa Roach, the band has shown an ability to outlast many of its peers from the early 2000s “‘nu-metal” movement that facilitated the band’s breakthrough, shifting sounds and incorporating more contemporary alt/metal vibes into later albums, such as 2022’s Ego Trip. That’s indicative of Planet Zero‘s chart success, summed up in a news release:
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