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Joanne Froggatt 14 PRENEUR WORLD www.preneur-world.com Intervi
Joanne Froggatt stars as an acute medicine consultant in ITV’s Breathtaking, a moving 3-part drama that salutes frontline NHS staff working through the Covid-19 Pandemic ew Available to watch on ITVX, Breathtaking is a moving 3-part drama starring Joanne Froggatt that follows NHS medics during the Covid-19 pandemic. Weeks before the UK’s first national lockdown, acute medicine consultant Dr Abbey Henderson (played by Froggatt) and her team struggle with the first wave of Covid-19 patients. Running out of PPE, staff, and beds, Abbey is forced to make difficult healthcare decisions as her colleagues begin to be infected with Covid-19. When lockdown is finally imposed, the pandemic stretches Abbey and the team to their limits as they confront government policy in relation to care home discharges and inadequate PPE. They try their best to save patients but are forced to endure the trauma of loss and tragedy caused by Covid-19. As winter arrives, a new wave hits the hospital, this time with Covid-19 deniers surfacing too, which causes the team to reach their breaking point. Scarred and enraged, Abbey cannot maintain her silence any longer and decides to risk everything by speaking out. In this interview, Joanne Froggatt shares insights into the poignant narrative that pays homage to the unwavering dedication of frontline workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, offering viewers a raw and unfiltered glimpse into the tumultuous reality of hospital life amidst unprecedented challenges. P Why did you want to be involved in Breathtaking? I had worked with our director J Craig Viveiros before on Angela Black and he approached me about Breathtaking. It sounded an incredibly important project to be a part of. Then I was sent the scripts and they just blew me away. They are some of the best scripts I’ve ever read. Definitely in the top percentage of great scripts I have read in my time. So that obviously was a huge factor. Just from a dramatic point of view. Reading the scripts I was very moved and shocked. Also moved to be involved in telling this story. I was shocked by what was really going on behind the closed doors of the hospitals here in the UK. We’d had little insights, bits and pieces we were told. But the story the public was fed by the government through the media is very different from what was actually happening. And so I was really shocked. I actually cried just reading the scripts. I don’t think that’s happened to me before. So it was a nobrainer for me to be involved. I’ve played roles that have tackled sensitive subject matters before, such as sexual assault and domestic abuse. It’s important to tell stories about sensitive subject matters and things people may not have thought about or understood. It’s a different way to get people to view certain issues. But what’s very different about this is, this is a lived experience for the entire world. Rather than it being a lived experience for a group of people who have lived it or who have had loved ones that have lived it. We’ve all had experience of this pandemic. The weight of that responsibility does feel great. But I don’t shy away from that either. Because it is such an incredibly important story to tell and I really wanted to be a part of telling it. P How did you prepare before filming started? I did a lot of preparation. I started J with reading the scripts and looking up all of the medical terms so I could get a broader sense of what was what. Then I read Rachel Clarke’s book Breathtaking and also her previous book called Dear Life which was about her experience as a palliative care doctor before Covid. Rachel Clarke is an extremely inspiring human being. Her book Breathtaking just moved me in a way that I can’t really explain. It’s beyond words. The way Rachel writes in both Breathtaking and Dear Life is just PRENEUR WORLD 15
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