‘Women are cut off and deemed too old. But we can’t become obsolete’ Helena Bonham Carter and Russell T Davies on why their new ITVX drama celebrates Noele Gordon, queen of the daytime TV soaps – and a force of nature 🎙️ Interview: emilyrbakes
set on the outskirts of Manchester, excitedly jumping from one scene to another. “This is Stone Bank Farm, where Benny spends a lot of time. Meg ended up here. I don’t remember how. Oh, and this is the set that they famously burned down when Meg went missing.”
Gordon was one of the doyennes of daytime TV, and her firing was a major news story. “I was 18 and in my first year at university,” Davies remembers. “I was at Oxford, supposed to be reading Thomas Hardy and Wordsworth, but I spent all my time scouring the tabloid newspapers to find out what had happened to Meg.”
“She’s such a sensational woman,” Bonham Carter says of Gordon. “The night she was sacked she went onand she performed with such gumption, fierceness and a lack of apology. I think we could all do with a bit of that. She legitimises my bossy side.”
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