South Riding S01E02

"I’ve got a face made for suffering," sighs Anna Maxwell Martin before letting out a peal of laughter that punctuates her lively conversation. In Andrew Davies's new three-part drama serial South Riding for BBC One, Martin plays Sarah Burton, a modern career woman who returns home to take up the headmistress-ship of a struggling Yorkshire high school for girls. Full of ambition, passion and fire to take her life into her own hands, Sarah falls for the man least likely to have won her heart.

The LAMDA-trained actress who studied history at Liverpool University explains why her relationship with Robert Carne (played by David Morrissey) is hostile when they first meet – although that soon changes – and is further complicated by Joe Astell (Douglas Henshall), a rival for Sarah's affections.

"Sarah's relationship with Robert Carne is quite tricky on every level," continues Anna. "He served in the First World War and she's smashing all over that in her quest to encourage young girls to think for themselves. Naturally they have an attraction to one another, she's very open sexually to him and it doesn't necessarily end happily ever after. With Douglas Henshall, who plays Joe Astell, they are great comrades and are much more politically like-minded, he is the person she should go for, but as is the way, women never go for men that they are supposed to! So that's sort of fraught as well."

South Riding is Anna's second collaboration with prolific writer Andrew Davies, following her critically acclaimed role as Esther in BBC drama Bleak House in 2005.
"Working with Andrew again was very interesting because obviously I last worked with him on Bleak House which was quite a few years ago. I felt like a baby when I did Bleak House. I suppose I feel like a different person and a bit more mature and more experienced now."


Television Series: South Riding (S01E02)
Release Date: February 2011
Actress: Anna Maxwell Martin
Video Clips Credit: Trailblazer
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