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Joanna Vanderham on her return as Denise in The Paradise
Warning for US audiences: Contains spoilers for The Paradise
This month the hit Victorian department store drama The Paradise returns to BBC One for a second series and with it its young romantic heroine who would seem not to have much to say to latter day twerking womanhood. Viewers may remember that demure shopgirl Denise snared her man by the end of series one against more vampish competition by means of restraint, self denial and buttoning up to the neck. Not many actresses could pull off the buttoned up look with such conviction, but perhaps Joanna Vanderham is not like other actresses.
There was a moment towards the end of the first episode of Stephen Poliakoff BBC Two drama Dancing on the Edge earlier this year, when Vanderham character, an adventurous young flapper, hops into bed on a train with Matthew Goode charming larrikin. Which young lady wouldn Only for this passionate encounter she wearing a black silk slip, which wasn in the script. Three days before filming at a meeting to discuss nude scenes with other cast members, Vanderham just came out and said it: don think I would be that comfortable with it and it would be great if we could find another way around it.
Poliakoff was, she recalls, taken aback if only because this was the first he heard of it and he was eager for the sex to look authentic. Negotiations Van Cleef & Arpels replicas about how to film the scene in a cramped railway carriage continued for two months. was very sweet. He would say, 'I don want you to do anything you uncomfortable with. And so then I would say, 'Well don make me take my clothes off. That was how the conversation would go every day. And I tried to say to him, 'I don want to do it is because selfishly those images don go away. I would have spent the rest of the episodes trying to convince the audience that she was more than just a pair of tits. And I didn want that to have to be my job. But at the same time I also didn want to have to take my clothes off on camera. I not body confident. I just not.
Sure enough, when Vanderham was putting together a new show reel, the only clip she could find of herself in Dancing on the Edge on YouTube featured that scene. But at least she clothed. She attributes her victory over Poliakoff (and a perpetuity of net surfers) to naivety. Arriving incognito in a pair of thickly rimmed specs, she sounds more knowing in person than she looks innocently pretty behind the spectacles she needs to get around. The innocence is part of her skill set, a natural aura that helps audiences root for her. She also full of beans and a vocabulary that would make a Victorian shopgirl blush. There is a strong whiff of certainty and steel, too.
Vanderham grew up in Perthshire the surname comes from her Dutch father van cleef bracelet gold fake and like most Scottish teenagers left school at 17. Only no English drama schools would have her before she turned 18. RADA could see the talent but suggested she get a year life experience. I was incredibly stubborn. I basically said, 'This industry does not demand that I go and work in a shop for a year. If I want to do screen work I need to be young. (Only Daniel Day Lewis needs to have been a shop girl to play one.)
The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama accepted her. In her second year in Cardiff she was cast in The Runaway, a Sixties set crime mini series on Sky1, and went to South Africa for three months to act alongside Ken Stott and Alan Cumming. After a final year back in Cardiff, she has rarely been off set since. There were lead roles in The Young James Herriot and as an entitled young actress who is murdered in Above Suspicion.
Then her fourth job was playing nanny to the child of divorcees Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan in What Maisie Knew, a film which came out here only a couple of months ago but which Vanderham made before she was even cast in The Paradise. After another actress dropped out, she was cast a fortnight before the shoot on the basis of a chat with the directors who felt she understood the character. Her main memory of shooting with Julianne Moore was of fainting in the heat in Chinatown and Moore turning paramedic.
was the one that went, 'Get this girl a cold towel! And came over with water and was taking my shoes off. It immediately meant our relationship became more real. What I respected more than anything she never once tried to give me advice or notes. (She can say the same for a lot of other senior actors.)
The experience, she says, gave her the confidence to go into a meeting with the BBC about playing the lead in The Paradise a huge career leap for her and say, can do this. Some of that confidence will come out in darker shades in the second series as dowdy Denise and her paramour Moray (Emun Elliot) set about restoring the fortunes of the shop in the face of his minx like former fiance Katherine Glendenning (Elaine Cassidy) and her raffish new husband (Ben Daniels).
fact that she was so contained was frustrating at times, says Vanderham of her character. wanted to push her but she had to be the lynchpin. If the audience didn like Denise they weren going to watch the rest of the show. As an actor I was like 'Give me more! And this season they did.
So expect Denise to show her cards, and even reveal the sort of ambition that evidently drives Vanderham in real life. She was Van Cleef & Arpels alhmbra bracelet white gold designed on a plane to Los Angeles this week, touting for work just as The Paradise starts going out on PBS, the American channel that also has Downton Abbey; her other big calling card, Dancing on the Edge, begins on October 19 on the Starz channel.
be following in their footsteps I don think is a bad thing, she says, but for herself would prefer to move into miserable territory, such as the sort of drama she likes watching (Peaky Blinders, What Remains, Broadchurch). needs to be an antidote. That where The Paradise comes in. But I think I done enough antidotal work and would like to do something a bit gritty.
Warning for US audiences: Contains spoilers for The Paradise
This month the hit Victorian department store drama The Paradise returns to BBC One for a second series and with it its young romantic heroine who would seem not to have much to say to latter day twerking womanhood. Viewers may remember that demure shopgirl Denise snared her man by the end of series one against more vampish competition by means of restraint, self denial and buttoning up to the neck. Not many actresses could pull off the buttoned up look with such conviction, but perhaps Joanna Vanderham is not like other actresses.
There was a moment towards the end of the first episode of Stephen Poliakoff BBC Two drama Dancing on the Edge earlier this year, when Vanderham character, an adventurous young flapper, hops into bed on a train with Matthew Goode charming larrikin. Which young lady wouldn Only for this passionate encounter she wearing a black silk slip, which wasn in the script. Three days before filming at a meeting to discuss nude scenes with other cast members, Vanderham just came out and said it: don think I would be that comfortable with it and it would be great if we could find another way around it.
Poliakoff was, she recalls, taken aback if only because this was the first he heard of it and he was eager for the sex to look authentic. Negotiations Van Cleef & Arpels replicas about how to film the scene in a cramped railway carriage continued for two months. was very sweet. He would say, 'I don want you to do anything you uncomfortable with. And so then I would say, 'Well don make me take my clothes off. That was how the conversation would go every day. And I tried to say to him, 'I don want to do it is because selfishly those images don go away. I would have spent the rest of the episodes trying to convince the audience that she was more than just a pair of tits. And I didn want that to have to be my job. But at the same time I also didn want to have to take my clothes off on camera. I not body confident. I just not.
Sure enough, when Vanderham was putting together a new show reel, the only clip she could find of herself in Dancing on the Edge on YouTube featured that scene. But at least she clothed. She attributes her victory over Poliakoff (and a perpetuity of net surfers) to naivety. Arriving incognito in a pair of thickly rimmed specs, she sounds more knowing in person than she looks innocently pretty behind the spectacles she needs to get around. The innocence is part of her skill set, a natural aura that helps audiences root for her. She also full of beans and a vocabulary that would make a Victorian shopgirl blush. There is a strong whiff of certainty and steel, too.
Vanderham grew up in Perthshire the surname comes from her Dutch father van cleef bracelet gold fake and like most Scottish teenagers left school at 17. Only no English drama schools would have her before she turned 18. RADA could see the talent but suggested she get a year life experience. I was incredibly stubborn. I basically said, 'This industry does not demand that I go and work in a shop for a year. If I want to do screen work I need to be young. (Only Daniel Day Lewis needs to have been a shop girl to play one.)
The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama accepted her. In her second year in Cardiff she was cast in The Runaway, a Sixties set crime mini series on Sky1, and went to South Africa for three months to act alongside Ken Stott and Alan Cumming. After a final year back in Cardiff, she has rarely been off set since. There were lead roles in The Young James Herriot and as an entitled young actress who is murdered in Above Suspicion.
Then her fourth job was playing nanny to the child of divorcees Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan in What Maisie Knew, a film which came out here only a couple of months ago but which Vanderham made before she was even cast in The Paradise. After another actress dropped out, she was cast a fortnight before the shoot on the basis of a chat with the directors who felt she understood the character. Her main memory of shooting with Julianne Moore was of fainting in the heat in Chinatown and Moore turning paramedic.
was the one that went, 'Get this girl a cold towel! And came over with water and was taking my shoes off. It immediately meant our relationship became more real. What I respected more than anything she never once tried to give me advice or notes. (She can say the same for a lot of other senior actors.)
The experience, she says, gave her the confidence to go into a meeting with the BBC about playing the lead in The Paradise a huge career leap for her and say, can do this. Some of that confidence will come out in darker shades in the second series as dowdy Denise and her paramour Moray (Emun Elliot) set about restoring the fortunes of the shop in the face of his minx like former fiance Katherine Glendenning (Elaine Cassidy) and her raffish new husband (Ben Daniels).
fact that she was so contained was frustrating at times, says Vanderham of her character. wanted to push her but she had to be the lynchpin. If the audience didn like Denise they weren going to watch the rest of the show. As an actor I was like 'Give me more! And this season they did.
So expect Denise to show her cards, and even reveal the sort of ambition that evidently drives Vanderham in real life. She was Van Cleef & Arpels alhmbra bracelet white gold designed on a plane to Los Angeles this week, touting for work just as The Paradise starts going out on PBS, the American channel that also has Downton Abbey; her other big calling card, Dancing on the Edge, begins on October 19 on the Starz channel.
be following in their footsteps I don think is a bad thing, she says, but for herself would prefer to move into miserable territory, such as the sort of drama she likes watching (Peaky Blinders, What Remains, Broadchurch). needs to be an antidote. That where The Paradise comes in. But I think I done enough antidotal work and would like to do something a bit gritty.
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