Parish to lead BBC2’s city scandal drama
Cutting It star Sarah Parish is to star in an Erin Brockovich-style role in a new BBC2 single drama.
The popular actress will play a highflying city trader who falls pregnant. Having decided to keep the baby, she sees her career fall apart as her firm removes her clients and tries to edge her out.
Parish said: “This is one hell of a part. Jess - the character I play - goes through the full spectrum of emotions. You see her as a hard-nosed city girl but as things start to unravel you see different sides to her. Eventually she takes her company to court. It’s like a lot of the stories that you see in the papers about how the city treats working mothers.”
Sarah Lancashire, Ben Miles and Raza Jaffrey also star in the 90 minute film for the Corporation, which is being filmed on location now. It currently has the working title Sex and the City and is expected to broadcast later this year.
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