Yahoo News Jodie Whittaker's show pulled from streaming service
Paramount+ has suddenly pulled a raft of international series from their streaming platform, including Jodie Whittaker's One Night.
Last week, fans woke up to realise some English-language drama content had vanished from the streamer amidst the conglomerate's strategy to focus on "Hollywood-style content" and lower costs (via Deadline).
Whittaker's One Night — focusing on three friends renegotiating the memories of a sexual assault that happened decades prior — was among the shows Paramount+ has pulled the plug on, together with The Burning Girls, The Killing Kind and The Serial Killer's Wife.
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Meanwhile, a previously announced second series of The Flatshare, starring Downton Abbey's Jessica Brown Findlay and Master of None's Anthony Welsh, won't be going ahead at the streamer, with more cuts pertaining acquired shows.
Premiering in September last year, One Night marked an intense role for Whittaker, and her first TV appearance since playing the first-ever main female Doctor on Doctor Who.
Speaking exclusively with Digital Spy, the actress revealed what drawed her to the role of Tess, a guarded woman who finds out her teenage best friend has written a novel about her rape.
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"I think the thing about Tess that's so fascinating to me, that was the biggest challenge to play, was that actually unlike a lot of the characters I play, she internalises it. So the armour has been built up for 20 years. The protective barrier is there. There's a certain amount of coldness to the people closest to her as well," Whittaker said.
"As someone completely polar opposite to that, who is really overshare-y, very over-tactile and doesn't know when to shut up, I found that stillness within Tess – it's not an internalised stillness, but it's an exterior protective bubble – fascinating to play, especially when the cracks start to appear."
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