Five minutes with… Maryland’s Suranne Jones By Rachael Davis, PA Entertainment Features Writer Every family has secrets, skeletons in the closet, but it is hard to imagine your family member harbouring one as monumental as an entire double life on an island miles from the town you call home. But, in ITV’s Maryland, that is exactly what sisters Becca and Rosaline discover their mother has done: in the wake of her death, they find she has been living a whole separate life on the Isle of Man. Maryland, co-created by and starring Doctor Foster and Gentleman Jack’s Suranne Jones, tells the story of Jones’ Becca and her sister Rosaline, played by Eve Best, as they come to terms with not only their grief at the loss of their mother, but their bewilderment at her secret. Jones, 44, worked with Trollied and Hullraisers creator Anne-Marie O’Connor on the dramatic three-parter coming to ITV1 and ITVX.Ahead of the series’ launch, we sit down with Jones to find out more. Why Did You Want To Tell This Story That Explores Family Dynamics And Family Secrets? It Discusses A Rather Taboo Aspect Of Family Life.
Yes, exactly.That’s why I wanted to do it. Because it’s uncomfortable, isn’t it? Like, we’ve all got one, and whether you see them, or you’re estranged… I think you will recognise some of it. Obviously, ours is an extreme situation, but… I think people will know this family.And they’ll be like;‘Oh, is that me and my brother? Is that me and my sister, oh, God, what-‘ it’s like, you can sit there and say, what if that happened to me? Even though it’s about a mother in her
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