Q: What was it like to work with Karen Gillan and develop the relationship between your characters?
It was very tricky because David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton are two separate people from separate worlds with separate opinions. It was really important to be able to have a relationship with Karen where we could explore the good stuff, the bad stuff, the arguments, the love, the romance, the disagreements. She was beyond phenomenal. We had a mutual understanding of what we were trying to create with the characters and the relationships, so we had lots of fun. It’s so much nicer to be able to do your job with someone who’s helping you and you’re helping them. Then, it becomes a tennis match where you’re hitting the ball back and forth, and you’re a team.
We had so much fun. It’s a great period and they’re iconic characters to play, so it was great for the both of us. It was a great story with a great script and great subjects with a fun wardrobe and great locations. Me and Karen are younger actors and we’re still youthful and creating our careers, which is exactly what David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton were doing, so we connected with that. It brought a nice energy to it because we understood what they were doing and where they were at, in their careers.
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“I’ve never seen anything like it, she doesn’t have a bad angle.”
To be honest, I would rather have this as referring more to Karen in the programme, not Jean, because it is then so undoubtedly true.
We’ll Take Manhattan
She looks unbelievably gorgeous, she can knit, and she eats a chip very cutely indeed. What other reasons do you want, Bailey?
Karen Gillan as Jean Shrimpton in We’ll Take Manhattan
Lady Clare: She .. apparently is beautiful.
Bailey: Yeah. She bloody is.Karen Gillan should just spend the rest of her life smiling. It’s impossible not to smile when she smiles. So if she smiled all the time everyone would smile all the time and the world would be happy. That’s her best gift, forget that she can act her socks off, forget that she is beautiful (like truly stunning), and forget that she is the nicest girl you could know. Her best gift is her smile and what it can do to other people, even when they are in the worst of moods. Here’s to ya Karen!
This is simply 1 of the sweetest things about Karen I’ve ever read. A perfect statement, Laura. :)
