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Mocking up 10 Downing Street was a crucial element to get right in the new Netflix thriller Hostage, in which Suranne Jones plays embattled Prime Minister Abigail Dalton.
When her husband is thrown into mortal peril abroad, Dalton has to cope with personal dramas as well as a Cabinet that is ranged against her, while at the same time keeping a doubtful nation on side with regular press appeals from the Downing Street podium, a perfect replica of which was recreated for filming.“That was thrilling to do,” says Jones, who also executive produced the five-part series. “We built the outside of Downing Street so that we could have that interaction. It was just great, being outside No 10 with all the press attention, coming in and going out, recognisable moments that have been in all our lives. Standing at the lectern! Thrilling!”
Did it give her a taste of what it would be like to be PM? “I would never want to be prime minister, not even for a day. It’s hard. And harder for women, as it is in most areas. We looked at Nicola Sturgeon, Theresa May, Jacinda Ardern, how they managed and at what cost. Breaking down the patriarchy is not an easy task.”
The series features not one but two female world leaders, as it co-stars French film legend Julie Delpy as French President Vivienne Toussaint, who is on a state visit to London. So Delpy also gets to walk the most famous street in politics.
View oEmbed on the source websiteIs the idea of a female French president realistic? “I think the French are possibly ready to elect a woman president,” says Delpy. Madame la president is, of course, extremely alluring. “Everyone thinks the French are very sexy, and having sex all the time. It’s not really true. The reality is that it’s not that we have more sex, it’s that we’re a little more relaxed about people having affairs.”
And apparently that dates from an older leadership system. “Yes, it comes from our kings. They were all over the place with women. They would have up to 20 lovers at any one time, and didn’t want them to take showers. They were crazy!”
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