It’s the plot twist nobody saw coming. The delight viewers felt when Lady Monica Baddingham finally left cheating husband Tony (David Tennant) in the last episode of Rivals released back in May, was short-lived, as she died in a car crash just hours later, leaving fans devastated.
“I thought it was just a lovely champagne lunch,” says Rushbrook. “Then they walloped me round the head with it.
“I have big, different feelings: immense pride at incredible scenes to play, and the tangible reaction from the audience. But it’s also absolutely gutting. Gutting and glorious.”
View Green Video on the source website“I haven’t played many deaths,” she says. “You feel acutely responsible to bring a believable version of it, but if I’d prepped for weeks and stayed up all night worrying, I wouldn’t have given a truthful performance. She’s dying, she’s weak, there’s no room for anything other than simple honesty.”
She worked with a vocal coach to master Monica’s cut-glass accent, and studied upperclass Clarissa Dickson Wright, from the 90s cookery show Two Fat Ladies.
“I felt intimidated,” says Rushbrook. “I was keen for it not to be a caricature. Sometimes, in Waitrose particularly, people almost give a little curtsy: a demure, discreet acknowledgement. They don’t look in my trolley, though, otherwise they’d see wine and Wotsits, not pheasant and grouse!”
Now that she has said goodbye to Monica forever, how will Rushbrook look back on playing her? “I’ve loved everything about her,” she says. “And I am greatly relieved that she was not a fan of outdoor sex and vigorous nudity! It’s been a privilege to play a woman discovering herself. The complexity and the truthfulness of that has made a painful exit very nourishing and rewarding.”
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