I believe there are things or energies beyond the everyday.” Then she checks herself, worried how this is might come across. “I don’t believe in God, but I believe in something more. Green claims, nonetheless, to be “very spiritual”. “It’s like I don’t have a corset any more when I’m playing Vanessa, you know? People will think that it’s terrible to have fun in a show like that. It should be someone’s blood but disappointingly it turns out to be beetroot juice to strengthen her immune system (her dietary regimen is as demanding as her skincare routine). I would go to an asylum.” This, no doubt, explains why method actors such as Christian Bale or Tom Hardy wouldn’t do well to work on a programme like Penny Dreadful.īut does she take Penny Dreadful’s themes of possession, the supernatural, the diabolical seriously? “I have done so much research on this, but take it seriously? It’s more like an acting dissection.” She takes a sip from her red drink. Can you imagine being in character the whole time? Ugh. “But do I take her madness home with me? No. That’s the problem.” And, for Green as an actor, that’s the opportunity.Įva Green with Daniel Craig in Casino Royale. We all have our demons, but Vanessa’s demons are literal. In this new series, Ives undergoes counselling with an alienist psychotherapist, and later appears in a padded cell with tears streaming down her face, hissing ominously at her doctors: “You think you know evil?” How does Vanessa wind up like that? “She feels as if she has been abandoned by God, she has lost her lover, her faith and her family and she feels cursed.

You have no life outside, so the show better be good.”Ĭlearly, Green thinks Penny Dreadful is good she revels in playing a character in psychic meltdown. As she puts it, with a chuckle: “It’s as if you sign away your life to the devil. This is the third year Green has spent living in Ireland for five and a half months playing Vanessa Ives. I make jokes and play with the crew before we approach” – she growls comically – “the darkness. It’s fun for me to do, even if the results are scary. Is it contagious? Do she think it’s psychically risky to play such a deranged character, particularly when channelling the voice of someone who endured exorcism? “On the contrary.

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