Honeysuckle Weeks has explained why she thinks long-running drama Foyle’s War has been such a success.
She stars alongside Michael Kitchen in the ITV Cold War drama about a secret agent, which is about to return for three more episodes after first hitting screens in 2002.
“It’s very, very well written, the way they’re put together is something else. And they get in very good actors for the guest roles. Let alone Michael…,” said Honeysuckle.
Talking enthusiastically about her role as Samantha Stewart, she added: “We’re in the world of MI5, we’re in the world of espionage, we’re in the world of double-crossings.
“It’s about the fall-out from the war and changing allegiances. Everyone’s got two different strands to their thinking - the personal identity and who they say they are, and the other identity, which is maybe their more secretive political leanings.”
Honeysuckle also said she had learned a lot from the scripts: “In episode one, we see the issue of women having to relinquish their wartime roles in the workplace because the Government was encouraging them to go back home so the men returning from war could have their jobs back.
“We see a lot of frustration among women at having to do that.
“On the last page of pretty much all of the scripts I’ve read from Anthony [Horowitz, writer], there’s a sort of biographical coda, where he lists the real-life characters on which the script has been based, so that’s always very interesting.”
Foyle’s War, ITV, Sunday, January 4, 8.00pm.
