Character Lady Persephone
Character Suspected Witch
Character Erin
Character Dawn
Helen, played by Claire Foy, is Kay’s girlfriend but she’s less certain of her sexuality than Kay and struggles with social taboo.
“Helen is a lost soul who doesn’t really see herself as a lesbian,” explains Claire, 27. “She doesn’t like living a lie and she can’t justify being with a woman in her mind if other people think it’s a bad thing to do.
“So when she falls passionately in love with a woman, that’s a shock for her.” (Source)
The Night Watch will air next Tuesday, July 12, on BBC2, at 9pm.
GALLERY LINKS:
- Scans: Daily Express Saturday (UK) – July 9, 2011
- Scans: Daily Mail Weekend (UK) – July 9, 2011
- Scans: Woman (UK) – July 11, 2011
- Scans: Clippings from 2011
Big thanks to Lorna.
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July 09, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles, Gallery, Media Alerts
‘The Night Watch’: Claire Foy interview
BBC Two’s been having a stellar run of drama recently, and the latest show aiming to capture the attention of the British public is The Night Watch. Based on the novel by Sarah Waters – she of Tipping The Velvet fame – the film focuses on the lives of several women living in wartime, and just post-wartime, London. Among the list of amazing stars taking part is Claire Foy, who recently chatted to reporters about her role in the drama. Read on to find out what she had to say about researching smoking, why love scenes are easier with two women, and whether she’s nervous about how the film will go down… Continue…
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July 08, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles
Love among the ruins
“You don’t see the broad sweep of London at war,” explains Claire Foy, who appears in the one-off drama as an insecure and brittle marriage bureau owner called Helen Giniver. “It is more personal, about people trying to live their lives while a war is going on and how it affects their decisions and erodes their lives.”
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“Working backwards is a really clever device,” says Foy. “You really get the sense that life was almost easier in the war because every decision was made for you and you lived day to day because you knew you might die at any moment. After the war, none of the characters knows what to do with their life and the country is in a state of flux.”
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“The four main characters are outsiders, because they are not really part of the status quo,” says Maxwell Martin. “Most of them are hiding secrets, and the drama shows how the war frees them and yet binds them at the same time.”
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For both Foy and Maxwell Martin, the toughest part of the shoot was filming on the bomb sites where Kay (Anna Maxwell Martin’s character) has to work. The scenes were shot in Bath, which was doubling as wartime London.
Source: Our scans located in the gallery
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July 08, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles, Gallery
‘The Night Watch’: New UK Scans
Claire Foy is ditching her Little Dorrit bonnet for a new period drama — with World War Two as the setting and the subject being sex not rags to riches.
“Helen’s on a knife edge,” insists Claire. “Nobody knows she’s desperately in love with a woman and every day she’s pretending to be someone she’s not. It’s awful for her.”
The Night Watch is based on the book by Sarah Waters, who also wrote the steamy Tipping the Velvet. “It won’t be quite as controversial,” says Claire. Besides, it seems filming the bedroom scenes with a woman was fun.
“It’s much easier than with a man,” Claire says. “You can chat and everyone’s got the same bits and pieces!” (Source)
The Night Watch will air next Tuesday, July 12, on BBC2, at 9pm.
GALLERY LINKS:
- Scans: Closer (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: Heat (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: Your TV Week (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
Big thanks to Lorna.
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July 06, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles, Gallery, Media Alerts
Independent Magazine Scans
Jodie Whittaker talks The Night Watch and more.
GALLERY LINK:
- Scans: Independent Magazine (UK) – June 18, 2011, thanks to Lorna
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July 05, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles, Gallery
‘The Night Watch’: Extensive UK Media Coverage
Big thanks to Lorna.
GALLERY LINKS:
- Scans: Radio Times (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: Total TV Guide (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: TV And Satellite Week (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: TV Choice (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: TV Easy (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: TV Times (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
- Scans: What’s On TV (UK) – July 9-15, 2011
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July 05, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles, Gallery, Media Alerts
Daily Telegraph Magazine Scans
Burning Desires
The Night Watch, Sarah Waters’ tale of turbulent passions set against the background of Blitz-hit London, is coming to television. Chloe Fox reports from the set.
GALLERY LINK:
- Scans: Daily Telegraph Magazine (UK) – July 2, 2011, thanks to Lorna
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July 02, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles, Gallery
New Guardian (2011) Outtake and 7 Brand New ‘Night Watch’ Stills
We forgot to post about, but, i’s tbetter late than never… Can you believe that Claire Foy Source has been online for 2 years already? 
Time flies! 
We’re very excited, happy and proud to have supported and followed Claire’s career throughout these years and to have brought you the latest news and images concerning Miss Foy. But, most of all, we’re very excited, happy and proud of everything that she has accomplished since we fell for her in Little Dorrit. Happy Anniversary to us and Congrats to Miss Foy for so many interesting projects and great performances! 
GALLERY LINKS:
- Photoshoots: The Guardian (2011)
- The Night Watch (TV, 2011): Production Stills
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June 29, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Gallery
‘The Night Watch’ – Claire Foy plays Helen
What attracted you to the role of Helen?
It was the project as a whole as opposed to just the character of Helen that attracted me. Richard Laxton – the director – was seeing people for every role and I originally really wanted to go for Viv, he kept saying: “Have a look at Helen, have a look at Helen.” When I did I felt she was such an interesting character, so difficult and also quite embarrassing to watch.
You really have to face up to some of your own insecurities to play a character like her because she is so vulnerable, fragile and naive. It was interesting to try and recall whether I had ever behaved like her.
But Helen is also lovely, you want to help her. She is like a friend who continually makes the wrong decisions, even after the advice you give them.
Continue…
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June 29, 2011 by Anna • "The Night Watch", Articles
U.K.’s Artificial Eye nabs ‘Wreckers’
Artificial Eye has snapped up U.K. rights to D.R. Hood’s “Wreckers” while Content Film has boarded the pic for international sales.
Artificial Eye will release the pic in Blighty alongside a day-on-date release with its online platform Curzon On Demand.
The pic, toplining Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy and Shaun Evans, will screen at the London U.K. Film Focus event in the capital next week.
Hood directed and penned the pic, a drama that sees a married couple move back to the husband’s childhood village to start a family. A surprise visit from the husband’s brother ignites a sibling rivalry and exposes the lies embedded in the couple’s relationship.
Simon Onwurah produces.
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June 20, 2011 by Mia • "Wreckers", News / Rumors
My TV hero: Claire Foy on Joanna Lumley
Claire Foy as told to Vicky Frost from The Guardian
Joanna Lumley is just brilliant in Absolutely Fabulous – I love that she’s not afraid of looking like a wally
Perhaps because I now tend to play people who are quite miserable, or at least not at their happiest, in my normal life I try to be quite upbeat. I’ve always found Joanna Lumley in Absolutely Fabulous hilarious. My mum and my sister were obsessed with the show, so I grew up watching the show pretty much all the time – we even wore out the videos.
Jennifer Saunders is fantastic in it of course, but I really love Lumley as Patsy Stone. Rewatching it recently, I was even more taken by what an amazing character Patsy is, and how brilliantly Lumley plays her.
It’s her physicality that makes Lumley so funny: the fact that she’s this elegant, beautiful woman who, with just a stoop of her shoulders, makes herself look completely different. I love that she’s not afraid of looking like a wally, and she doesn’t seem to take herself too seriously.
She also always goes for it so completely. In television and film it’s all about being very subtle, but Lumley’s performance is so grotesque, yet also still believable. I find that sense of not really caring what you look like inspirational – I find it difficult to stand and have a picture taken, for instance, and not laugh at the absurdity of it all.
I also can’t imagine how she and Jennifer Saunders could get through the show without laughing. There’s this brilliant scene where Patsy comes in, moaning about non-smoking cabs, and lights about 20 cigarettes at once. As an actress I have no idea how she kept a straight face. I wish I could have been in AbFab – but God knows how I would have managed to stop myself laughing.
I didn’t watch when they brought Absolutely Fabulous back. I wanted to keep the show as I remembered it. I was in New York recently and saw Lumley in La Bete on Broadway with Mark Rylance. She was brilliant. But I think, in a weird way, I wouldn’t like to work with her. The funny thing about this industry is you sort of give up being in awe of something; you don’t watch things properly because you know what’s going on behind the scenes, and so the spell is broken.
Really, I’d just like to have a chat with her, and try to get her to re-enact scenes from AbFab for me. Although I’m sure that would not be entirely appropriate.
• Claire Foy will appear in The Night Watch on BBC2 next month.
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June 16, 2011 by Mia • Articles
First look at Claire Foy as Charlotte
Huge thank you to Shannon for sending in scans of this week’s Radio Times which has a double page photograph of the cast of the upcoming series ‘White Heat‘ at a costume fitting in London last week. It was the first time they’ve all got together ahead of next week’s filming. What do you think of Claire’s look as Charlotte?
GALLERY LINK:
- Scans > Radio Times (UK) – June 11-17, 2011
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June 10, 2011 by Mia • "White Heat", Gallery
HQs from the 2011 Philips British Academy Television Awards
Finally!
GALLERY LINK:
- Events: 2011 Philips British Academy Television Awards
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June 09, 2011 by Anna • "The Promise", Gallery, Public Events
New Project: White Heat
BBC announced a new epic drama series for BBC2 called ‘White Heat‘ and starring Claire Foy!
Also starring Sam Claflin, Reece Ritchie, Lee Ingleby, MyAnna Buring, David Gyasi and Jessica Gunning the original series is written by Paula Milne and will begin filming next week on location in London. What is the semi-autobiographical series about?
This ambitious series charts the lives of seven friends from 1965 through to the present day. Their relationships; complex, volatile, life affirming and life changing start when they come together as a diverse group of young students to live as flat mates in London’s Tufnell Park: rebel with a cause Jack (Claflin), intelligent feminist Charlotte (Foy), fragile beauty Lilly (Buring), medical student Jay (Ritchie), electronics enthusiast Alan (Ingleby), law student Victor (Gyasi) and big-hearted Orla (Gunning).
The series follows them over four decades as their lives, loves and destinies are shaped by the political events of each era – from the death of Churchill, the union strife of the Seventies, the ascendancy of Thatcher, the Falklands, Aids, the end of the Cold War to the present day. Their interwoven personal lives played against the backcloth of these crucial events converge to make them the people they are today.
Read more quotes about the project over at the BBC Press Office.
On a sidenote, Claire Foy will be a “stylish redhead” in the series according to this tweet by Linny Newman.
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June 07, 2011 by Mia • "White Heat", News / Rumors
Scan from Elle UK (2008)
I’m very happy to finally be able to offer you guys and girls, and add to our gallery, a scan from Elle UK, which was — to my best knowledge — one of the two big magazines to feature Miss Claire Foy, back in 2008, that we were missing (the other one is Vogue UK). The photo used in the article is part of the Daily Mail set, but it’s a previously unseen one. Enjoy!
GALLERY LINKS:
- Photoshoots: Daily Mail (2008)
- Scans from 2008: Elle (UK) – December 2008