For years, Nicola Walker has played detectives, lawyers and women holding complicated lives together. But her latest role in comedy-drama Alice and Steve may be the closest she’s come to playing herself.<\/p>\n
The six-part series, written by Sophie Goodhart and co-starring Jemaine Clement, begins with a friendship-shattering premise. Alice (Walker) discovers her best friend Steve (Clement) is dating her 26-year-old daughter, Izzy. What follows is part comedy and part emotional warfare as two middle-aged friends spiral into a battle of resentment, jealousy and revenge.<\/p>\n
The show’s central dilemma may be extreme, but when asked how she would react in Alice’s shoes, Walker says the parenting emotions at its heart feel very familiar.<\/p>\n
“My son is older and has had a few relationships and, as a mother, every one is unexpected,” she tells BBC News.<\/p>\n
“It’s really hard going from having complete control of them as this small entity who believes everything you say and, in their eyes, you’re great at everything.<\/p>\n
“Then they become teenagers, they start bringing people home they desire and it’s a massive parenting shift.”<\/p>\n
The challenge, she says, is learning when not to intervene.<\/p>\n
“You have to just keep your mouth shut, which is the opposite of what Alice does.<\/p>\n
“You have to become bovine, my friend told me. You have to just go ‘mm-hmm, mm-hmm’ and behave like a large cow around them, just pretending to agree,” she laughs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For years, Nicola Walker has played detectives, lawyers and women holding complicated lives together. But her latest role…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-623602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623602","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=623602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}