"I miss the shoulder pads"
Katherine Parkinson plays Lizzie Vereker
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- Caroline Frost
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Lizzie is the sweetest of the local women, but she can be easily led by her Rutshire neighbours…
Lizzie gets caught up with the snobbery of the world she’s in, and she does that thing of joining in with the crowd for survival. Then when Freddie Jones [Danny Dyer] arrives and they mock him, she’s chastened. It takes an outsider to come in and hold a mirror up to these people.
The married but neglected Lizzie embarks on an affair with Freddie. Did you approve?
They are both quite pure and drawn to each other for the right reasons, so it’s actually a positive thing. You want these characters to find themselves again.
Rivals is set in 1986. Have things got better for women since then?
My mother’s generation were more likely to sacrifice their talents for the sake of their husbands. I think that’s definitely evolved since the time Jilly Cooper was writing about, but it’s helpful to look back and see what still needs to change.
In your opinion, what was better about the 1980s?
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The earrings… and the shoulder pads.
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Caroline Frost
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