Yahoo News Prime Suspect 1973 sexism is "so relevant still"
It's over 10 years since Helen Mirren last battled sexism within the police force in Prime Suspect - but now Jane Tennison is back on our screens.
Stefanie Martini plays a young Tennison in ITV's new prequel Prime Suspect 1973 and told Digital Spy that the themes of misogyny and chauvinism present in both shows remains "so relevant" in 2017.
"It is a very interesting time for this show to be coming out," Martini said, just days after the global Women's March on January 21.
"It's definitely so relevant still. It's very much still a part of daily life - how you're treated as a woman, how you're looked at as a woman, how you're judged on the way that you look, how you are seen as a sex object - whether you want to be or not.
"It's so, so completely still part of modern-day life, so if anything, hopefully, seeing it in the '70s will not only highlight what's different but will also highlight what's still the same."
Prime Suspect 1973 introduces Jane as a young WPC - some 18 years before we first met the character. Working alongside her superior, DI Bradfield (Sam Reid), Tennison is thrown in at the deep end on her first case, experiencing London's violent criminal ganglands first hand.
Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners) also stars in the six-part series, adapted by Glen Laker from Lynda La Plante's novel Tennison.
Prime Suspect 1973 begins next Thursday (March 2) at 9pm on ITV.
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