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Romola Garai
Her role of Beth in Danny Brocklehurst’s drama certainly qualifies. Married with two teenagers, juggling her job as a fitness trainer while grieving the death of her best pal, Beth barely seems to stop for thought before plunging into a torrid affair with Tom (Cooper).
“Film, TV and literature have had a complex relationship with women, their individual pleasures set against their duties as wives and mothers,” says Garai, who tells me that Leo Tolstoy’s tale of adulteress Anna Karenina is one of her favourite books. “The question of how much you owe yourself versus how much you owe other people is the big question of women’s lives.”
“There’s something that happens, I think, to people over the course of their lives, where their duties and responsibilities, whether it’s work or family, kind of creep up. And they haven’t noticed it until they reach a tipping point and it becomes intolerable.” She laughs. “Maybe it’s because I’m in middle age and I’ve seen that happen a lot around me: people sort of popping.”
Separately, following the assertion by Dominic West, her co-star on The Hour, that he’d return to Abi Morgan’s much-missed period drama “in a shot”, could we count on Garai’s involvement too? She nods. “It’s the show people still stop and talk to me about. Working with Dominic and Ben Whishaw, it was an incredible cast with an incredible writer. So, yes, I would.”
Danny Brocklehurst
What inspired you to write about adultery?
What other aspects were important?
There are lots of layers, with themes of class differences, the impact of social media and the effects of grief. I wanted to write a grown-up drama with no villains but with consequences, and look at why these things happen.
Most affairs aren’t based on real life. They’re based on a sort of fantasy, something that feels like an escape. I see it around me with friends and people I know.
It comes out of marriages becoming stale, or people feeling unseen or undervalued, and it manifests in them finding something elsewhere. But the damage of an affair is enormous, so you have to ask the question, is it worth it?
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