“If your child is abducted, I think that's a special kind of hell that you've been put in,” she said of Paramount Plus’s Girl Taken. Adapted from Hollie Overton's novel Baby Doll, the drama follows Halfpenny’s character, Eve, who is thrown into turmoil when one of her twin daughters is abducted and held captive for half a decade before managing to escape.
For Halfpenny, the role also stirred memories of the programmes she watched growing up about kidnapped or missing children.
“I just think it's a hideous — I mean, of course it's a hideous thing to happen — but it's the not knowing. That’s when you have to tap into some other entity. Some people turn to religion, some people turn to distraction, to booze, to love, to whatever — something to escape from that feeling.
Girl Taken tells the story of “twin sisters Lily and Abby, whose lives are shattered when Lily is abducted from their quiet rural English town by beloved local teacher Rick Hansen,” according to the official synopsis.
“As Abby, Lily and their mother Eve struggle to rebuild their family, they must confront the lasting damage — and the terrifying reality that Rick is still out there, determined to control the narrative and evade justice.”
“When you listen to people who’ve been attacked and it’s happened in one night, that in itself is a lifelong process — to unpick what happened on that night, to not blame yourself, to wonder why it happened, to think, ‘Could I have done anything different?’
Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones, Atomic) and Jill Halfpenny (The Cuckoo, After the Flood) play Rick and Eve respectively, while sisters Tallulah (The Forsyte Saga, My Fault: London) and Delphi Evans take on the roles of Lily and Abby.
Supporting the cast are Vikash Bhai (Limbo, Virdee), Niamh Walsh (Smother, Jamestown), Levi Brown (This Town, Invasion), Victoria Ekanoye (The Turkish Detective, The Royals, Coronation Street), Holly Atkins (Mobland, Criminal Justice) and Kiran Krishnakumar (What It Feels Like for a Girl, Everything Now).
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