Bafta-winning actress Sarah Lancashire has said her award-winning performance in gritty TV drama Happy Valley was “born out of fear”.<\/p>\n
Lancashire, 60, who rose to fame as barmaid Raquel Wolstenhulme in Coronation Street, won two leading actress Baftas for playing no-nonsense Sergeant Catherine Cawood in the BBC series.<\/p>\n
Her decades-long “brilliant and intangible” working relationship with writer Sally Wainwright influenced her role, but she said fear was key to her performance.<\/p>\n
Discussing the role at Windsor Castle on Tuesday, after being formally made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE), Lancashire said: “That was just born out of fear, abject fear, of feeling quite off-piste.<\/p>\n
“Literally it was a leap of faith, jumping off the cliff at midnight in the dark.<\/p>\n
“But knowing that somebody has the confidence in you and the belief in you – Wainwright is deeply persuasive as an individual, which I absolutely, really admire, I’m very grateful, always.”<\/p>\n
Lancashire starred in Coronation Street from 1991 until 1996, appearing in more than 260 episodes.<\/p>\n
She and Wainwright first met when they were “cutting their teeth” on the soap opera.<\/p>\n
The pair later collaborated on the BBC comedy-drama Last Tango In Halifax, for which Lancashire won her first Bafta in 2014 for her supporting role.<\/p>\n
They worked together again on Happy Valley, which ran from 2014 to 2023.<\/p>\n
Asked what made playing Sgt Cawood so terrifying, Lancashire said: “The setting of it, being asked to play something which I had no knowledge of at all – absolutely no knowledge.<\/p>\n
“And knowing that the level of research that was available to me was going to be quite limited in the time available.<\/p>\n
“But in actual fact – as Wainwright always said – it wasn’t a procedural drama, it was not a police drama, it was a family.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bafta-winning actress Sarah Lancashire has said her award-winning performance in gritty TV drama Happy Valley was “born out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-17491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}