{"id":344121,"date":"2025-12-31T05:44:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344121\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T05:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:44:18","slug":"ruth-jones-gobsmacked-as-she-takes-on-new-role-away-from-gavin-and-stacey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344121\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Jones ‘gobsmacked’ as she takes on new role away from Gavin and Stacey"},"content":{"rendered":"

The actress will be taking on a new challenge in Netflix’s adaptation of Harlan Coben’s Run Away\"RuthRuth Jones will be starring in Harlan Coben and Netflix’s new drama series Run Away(Image: Ben Blackall\/Netflix)<\/p>\n

After last year’s Gavin and Stacey <\/a>finale, many members of the cast went their separate ways taking on new projects in the process. Some have written books,<\/a> other have wandered over to different BBC series <\/a>and one member of the cast has become a DJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ruth Jones <\/a>has been involved in numerous projects<\/a> following the end of the popular sitcom. In a massive move from her role as Nessa, the actress from Porthcawl <\/a>will be starring in a new major Netflix series which will air on New Year’s Day. Ruth will appear in the streaming platform’s adaptation of Harlan Coben’s Run Away.<\/a><\/p>\n

She’ll be starring as Elena Ravenscroft, a private investigator who is hired by a businessman to find his missing son. For the latest TV and showbiz gossip sign up to our newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n

However, the programme centres around Simon, (played by James Nesbitt), a man who seemingly leads an idyllic existence with a devoted wife, children, and a beautiful house. Everything transforms dramatically when his eldest daughter Paige disappears and their world falls apart.<\/p>\n

Ruth’s character, Elena, will be assisting James Nesbitt’s character in his covert hunt for his missing daughter.<\/p>\n

\"RuthIn a big move from comedy sitcoms, the actress will play private investigator Elena Ravenscroft.(Image: Ben Blackall\/Netflix)<\/p>\n

Before becoming a private investigator, Elena was a former police firearms officer. This meant that the actress had to become familiar with a gun for her new role.<\/p>\n

When speaking with the Radio Times<\/a>, Ruth shared what it was like rehearsing for her role and the firearms training she had to undergo. She said: “We had proper serious training for it, it was all taken very seriously \u2013 as it should be, you know.<\/p>\n

“I’d be lying if I said that it didn’t make me feel like a little bit kind of powerful onscreen.”<\/p>\n

In the thriller we see a flashback scene of a gunfight in a factory, which Ruth described as “great fun to shoot.”<\/p>\n

In the press pack for the series, she said: “I was gobsmacked at how many people were involved in setting up a scene like that \u2013 and I learned what was meant by a ‘squib’ \u2013 a fake explosion that mimics gunfire, and shots bouncing off surfaces. I had to be taught how to hold and fire a gun with blanks as that was a first for me. The guns are incredibly loud!”<\/p>\n

\"RuthThe actress explained she had ‘serious’ training to handle firearms in the series.(Image: Ben Blackall\/Netflix)<\/p>\n

Run Away is the latest thriller adaptation of Harlan Coben’s books, after the success of Fool Me Once which aired on Netflix in 2024.<\/p>\n

The author told Netflix’s Tudum: “Run Away is about family – about what we will do to keep our family intact, what secrets we keep within our family, and what secrets we keep as a family.<\/p>\n

“Every time you walk past the house, there’s a whole universe that goes on behind that door and none of us have a clue what it is.”<\/p>\n

Starring alongside Ruth Jones and James Nesbitt, will be Minnie Driver, Ellie de Lange of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light fame, Alfred Enoch from The Couple Next Door, Lucian Msamati who featured in Gangs of London, Jon Pointing known for Big Boys, Tracy Ann-Oberman from Code 404, Annette Badland of Ted Lasso, Finty Williams from The A List, Joe McGann of Kaos, and Ingrid Oliver from Sweetpea.<\/p>\n

The eight-episode thriller will premiere on New Year’s Day, maintaining the tradition established by Coben’s earlier works Missing You and Fool Me Once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The actress will be taking on a new challenge in Netflix’s adaptation of Harlan Coben’s Run AwayRuth Jones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,19140,392,58456,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-344121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gavin-stacey","11":"tag-netflix","12":"tag-ruth-jones","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}