Her character is cursed by her powers and torn from the comfort of her loving home and family, but eventually manages to rebuild her life and find solace with Mark (Tom Ellis). Before things go wrong all over again. Sarah can be tough and determined and is incredibly loyal. She is Juliet to Mark’s Romeo – hopelessly in love but always just out of reach. “She’s married and has this double existence, because she is an Angelic," explains Natalie. "Her gift is that she’s a seer, she can see the future, and she has visions which she then relays to other Angelics. So she’s normal, but she’s got a history of mental illness and it’s obviously something she’s really struggled to come to terms with. Mark has been her saviour from that. The marriage has broken down for a plethora of reasons, the most pertinent being that she’s living a double existence that he doesn’t understand, which creates a lot of friction. She’s been clutching at straws, trying to maintain a normal life, pretending to herself, lying that she can have a normal, average, uneventful life – and she can’t.”
So does Sarah see her gifts and status as an Angelic as a blessing or a curse? “When you meet her at the beginning of the series she would definitely say it was a curse, because her marriage and her life have been destroyed by it," insists Dormer. "And that’s something that Iain’s character Paul has to face. It’s about finding your place in the world, where you belong, and not denying who you really are. Identity and self-identity is a very strong theme of the show. There is real, genuinely intelligent writing behind it, behind all the fun and the running around and the entertainment.”
Ah yes, the running around. "This has been one of the most physically demanding jobs I’ve ever done!" she states. "I couldn’t begin to list everything, but it was crazy! For example, being submerged in freezing cold gloop and goo all day, vomiting black stuff, ash being thrown in your face for three or four days, you name it we’ve done it. There’s been a sort of hellish physical experience for all the cast at one point or another. We’ve all been supportive of each other when it’s been that person’s turn! We’ve really been pushing the boundaries especially in the second half of the series."
The actress says she was attracted to The Fades by the the strength and the dexterity of the writing. "Everyone loves a good love story, and everyone loves a bit of action, and everyone loves a bit of guts and gore, you know, even the girls do," she explains. "Nothing in this is gratuitous – everything that is done is done to create true, weighty emotion. So there’s no pornography in this. When it gets really dark, it gets dark for intelligent reasons."
After that, it seems the nude scenes, intelligent or not, were a breeze by comparison. As Natalie puts it in a classic case of understatement, "It’s just a slightly tougher day at work. They are daunting in so far as it’s a very personal thing and you are doing it in front of eight other people, closed set or not." As she said in another recent interview, "You do become numb to the shock to the system of having to take your clothes off in front of people and obviously it helps the more submerged you are in the character and the motivations behind the actual act."
Natalie, all slanting pale blue eyes and waves of ash-blonde hair, says the process is hopefully handled in a very sensitive, discreet way and with the director being incredibly protective and generous with her in her most vulnerable state. People, she says, would be amazed at how unerotic the process actually is, because it’s heavily choreographed. Of her revealing scenes, she added, “I think actresses have a responsibility to protect the sisterhood. It is not something you can be flippant about. You wouldn’t do it unless you had given it weighty consideration, which I always have."
Television Series: The Fades (S01E06)
Release Date: October 2011
Actress: Natalie Dormer
Video Clip Credit: Webmskn & Trailblazer
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