![]() ![]() When Whelan looks back on her time on Thrones, it’s with “great fondness and pride”. Gemma Whelan as DS Sarah Collins in ‘The Tower’ (ITV) I went back with my daughter and she was six weeks old and they allowed for breastfeeding… That should just be a normal thing – you have a child and you have to feed it but you’re working as well.” “It was similar with Game of Thrones, actually. “I thought I’d be on the shelf for a little while after having the baby, which is fine, but I was very lucky,” she says. ![]() Last week, Whelan returned to working on a new TV series and took to Instagram to thank the production team for “making it so easy and brilliant to be at work with bubba”. “I really felt for because I went through that nerve-wracking week and a half of, ‘Argh… should I not have told them?’ It all goes through your head.”įrom her own experience, however, things appear to be looking up for pregnant women on set. “I mean, I’m not ill – pregnant women are not ill,” she says. She recalls the agonising wait to find out if she was considered “well enough” to work. Insurance, Whelan says, was almost a “sticking point” on The Tower too. Last month, actor Jade Anouka wrote in The Guardian about losing a TV part after insurers refused to cover her on set. Things went smoothly, but she’s aware they could not have been so easy. Whelan was in the early stages of pregnancy with her new baby – who was born six weeks ago – when she got the job on The Tower. But it’ll be interesting to see people’s reactions to it.” I think you could quite possibly argue that 99 per cent of them are good and doing their job. It’s not something new to our understanding of the police force. because it’s based on Kate’s books and she was a detective and clearly it goes on. There is corruption being addressed in the show. “Trust in the police is not high at the moment, is it?” says Whelan. ![]() There was the wife of Lord Altrincham in The Crown the cousin who testified against Jeremy Bamber in a murder trial in White House Farm Carolyn’s needy, “hyper-empathetic” daughter in Killing Eve and detective constable Eunice Noon in The End of the F***ing World. But she has quietly carved out a niche for herself in the years since playing hard-nosed women in other acclaimed series. Whelan played the part so well – all furrowed brows and withering stares, when she wasn’t in all-out combat – that to many fans she’ll forever be associated with that role. ![]() The sole daughter in a family of cruel men, she was swaggering and salty, a brusquely intimidating warrior from whose shadow her brother Theon (Alfie Allen) could never emerge. Of course, Yara was too busy slitting throats and slaughtering soldiers to find the time to wash. “I didn’t look dissimilar from my character – I was dirty and sweaty and red.” Just last week, she was “absolutely dripping with sweat after my attempt at a 5k after having a baby” when she was asked for a selfie by a fan. It’s probably to do with the fact that her Game of Thrones character, Yara Greyjoy, was usually coated in a thin layer of dirt. The worse Gemma Whelan looks, the more she’s spotted. ‘I want to do what Olivia Colman did’ (Getty) ![]()
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