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Tuesday 09 Mar 2010
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Marple: Towards Zero Interview
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 The following interview with Zoe is taken from the ITV Press Pack for Marple: Towards Zero.

Zoe Tapper as Kay Strange“Kay is the feisty, flame-haired society it-girl of her time. She’s married to Neville and although she loves the fact that she is married to him, she is very insecure about his relationship with his first wife. She uses the fact that she is glamorous and that people are aware of her presence when she walks into a room, but I think that’s a façade for all the vulnerabilities underneath.

I think what attracted me was the opportunity to play at being slightly over the top and mischievous and bold. All of the characters are slightly more heightened and more colourful perhaps than in a more realistic drama. It was fun trying to play up certain aspects that might deceive the audience, but it’s important to keep truthful to your character so that, looking back, you never veered off the real point. The first question anyone asks you when you say you are doing a Marple is “are you the killer?” Half of you wants to be but, at the same time, if you are the killer you don’t get that glorious moment of shock and outrage at what someone else has done!

It’s appealing for actors to come in and do something different - they get this little capsule of time to play with a character. Plus the costumes are amazing. I had such fun dressing up - getting the high-heels and red lipstick on and slinking about. It was always full-on glamour with Kay - there wasn’t a single dowdy moment. The hair was a bit of a saga though. To get it that very, very flame red we had to put vegetable dyes on my hair, which would unfortunately wash out every time I washed it – there was always red running everywhere.

I always used to watch Marples on a Sunday night - I would try to guess the least likely person and then work out some elaborate story of how they could have done it. I sent all of my costume photos over to my gran, because I know she’ll watch it and love it. Although, essentially, it is about murder, it has a tremendous amount of fun to it – it isn’t going to leave you traumatised, mainly because you can see that all the actors are having fun doing it. Plus I think everyone has a secret yearning for Geraldine’s Miss Marple to be their granny.”

 


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6th March 2010

Added a reminder to the front page tickery thingy that Zoë is on TV Weds 10th March in Marple: Towards Zero. Updated the Filmography to reflect the 30 minute film Jennifer and updated some bits and pieces of it that were slightly out of date!

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Demons S1 on Bluray

Demons Series One released on Bluray Disc on April 9th 2009 (UK).  Release details in the Work Section. The disc is also available from the Online Shop.

 
Demons in America!

Demons, the British ITV-made Fantasy Drama, enjoyed it's premiere on BBC America, starting on Saturday 2nd January 2010 at 22:00.

Our Demons Section contains full episode synopses and the Gallery Section screencaps, video clips and reviews.

 

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High Octane Interview

Total Sci-Fi Online interviewed Zoë and Robyn Addison about their experiences in Series 2 of Survivors and their characters, Anya and Sarah.

The interview is here: Total Sci-Fi Online Interview with Zoe Tapper and Robyn Addison - February 2010.

 
DVD Box Sets

The DVD box set for Survivors Series 2 release date has been put back to 1st March 2010 (due to transmission delays) and there is to be a box set containing both Series 1 and Series 2 of Survivors!

More details on the Survivors DVDs Page.

 
BBC America

BBC America have a section of their US-based website for Survivors Fans.

The Survivors pages are here.

 
Survivors on iPlayer

All six episodes of series two of Survivors will be available for streaming (or time-limited download) on the BBC iPlayer service. Rather than the standard seven-day access to a single episode (after which a new episode replaces the previous one) the entire series will be ’stacked’ on the iPlayer.

More on the News Page.

 
Monumental End!

In an interview on the Digital Spy website, Survivors actor Paterson Joseph (Greg) suggests that series two will conclude with a ‘monumental’ finale, as key storylines play out in episodes five and six.

Please note that the interview contains significant ***SPOILERS*** concerning end of series two plot developments.

 
Ratings

A new page in the Survivors Section called Ratings, reflects the UK ratings for each episode of Survivors just after they air.

 
Worlds Apart

The Survivorsbbctv blog announced yesterday the forthcoming publication of a new guidebook on the BBC’s remake of Survivors, written by the author of the blog and published by Classic TV Press. Full details here.

 
Daily Mail Interview - Jan 2010

A new interview with Zoë by UK newspaper The Daily Mail posted in the Interviews Section. In the interview, Zoë talks about her acting career from when she first started acting in Stage Beauty, to her current role in Survivors, Series 2 of which is to be aired in the UK on January 12th and Series 1 airing in the US on February 13th.

The complete interview is in the Interviews Section and the Survivors Section has the details about both Series of Survivors, including the UK trailer for Series 2 and a YouTube catch-up video for Series 1.

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Romantics in Australia

BBC drama Desperate Romantics is to be aired to audiences in Australia as part of a raft of sales down under. The 6 x 60-minute period drama, described as a 19th century Entourage, has been picked up by public broadcaster ABC TV in a deal with BBC Worldwide. More on the News Page.

 
Baseline

Baseline - a new film currently in production and co-starring Zoë as Jessica:

Minor update on the film on the News Page.

 

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The Curse of Steptoe

Recently added to The Curse of Steptoe Gallery - pictures and video clips of Zoë as Shelia Steafel in the BBC play The Curse of Steptoe.