“I liked the way this story shows that wasn’t always the case but there’s something quite karmic about these characters who have gone around the world taking what they want from the local people suddenly realising that they can’t actually escape.”. They have made a happy home in the British colony with their three children Joan, Monty and Kate — but they’re unaware that an impending Japanese invasion will lead to a humiliating surrender for the British forces, and the end of life as they know it. What we know. Discover the right package for you. He is keen to secure an advantageous marriage for Joan in order to enhance and secure the fortune he has so carefully built. “I’ve not done anything on television for quite some time,” she explained. He exploits the native economy in different ways, in his numerous paid sexual encounters and lavish spending habits, and rapidly disappears at the sign of any hard work or good will. Discover the right TV package for you. As it wasn’t a dark and gritty murder show I thought it sounded good and fun,” said Jane Horrocks. Future US, Inc. 11 West 42nd Street, 15th Floor, It’s callous and it’s ruthless, but it isn’t without impressiveness". WhatToWatch is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. I maybe go to one or two tourist places, but I’m happier just going off, walking, exploring and listening to people. Well of course it is, it’s Christopher Hampton.”. Visit our corporate site. “Thousands of people were tortured and killed and experimented on. Farrell’s 1978 novel, The Singapore Grip. David Morrissey as Walter Blackett in The Singapore Grip. I’ve never really played anyone like him before. She’s so much of her dad but a bit of her mum too. © DC Thomson Co Ltd 2020. Talking about the role, Treadaway said: “I’ve done things before set in the Second World War and one that was in the immediate aftermath in Asia in a Japanese prisoner of war camp [Unbroken]. "Not a lot of people know about the history of Harbin. The full series is available to stream now on BritBox. A biting satire on colonialism, a war story and a romantic drama, all filmed on location with the stunning backdrop of Kuala Lumpur, The Singapore Grip has already got millions of viewers hooked on ITV and BritBox. Monty is Walter and Sylvia’s spoiled, brash and insensitive son. But he is thwarted by the impending threat of war and, being terrified of offending his father’s long-term business partner, the commanding figure of Walter. An epic story set during World War Two, The Singapore Grip focuses on a British family living in Singapore at the time of the Japanese invasion. We've got more sport, drama, cinema & kids' TV than ever before. “They’ve got a lot of substance to them. Newcomer Blizzard said: “I know that people will be Team Vera but I’ve always been Team Joan. She claims to have been born in Russia to a Chinese tea merchant father and a Russian princess mother. A rich white man. She is a survivor, and fiercely independent, having travelled the world and managed to get out of every situation unscathed. Luke Newberry (In The Flesh) plays Walter and Sylvia’s son Monty Blackett. They’re both period dramas about the end of Empire and set in this part of the world with the threat of war and Japanese invasion. Their daughter Joan Blackett, played by Georgia Blizzard, is an independent-minded young woman with considerable business acumen, Walter and Sylvie’s eldest daughter sets out to seduce Matthew Webb, played by Luke Treadaway (Fortitude). His doggedness blinds him to realities however, and he is one of the last to acknowledge the Japanese threat for what it truly is. The characters are expats enjoying the fruits of success in the Far East rubber trade … The Singapore Grip is an ITV six-part television drama series. "Even though there is a war about to happen, even though there’s this glaring thing coming at him at a million miles an hour, he’s sort of completely ignorant of that. I don’t think it’s fair to just label her that way. He doesn’t see war as a reason to stop business — even as the bombs are coming over, he’s trying to do deals. It’s always good to present people as they were, as much as possible, rather than softening the edges. Vera is a mysterious Chinese woman with an unknown past. She’s a true survivor. That is, until Matthew Webb arrives and appears to offer the prospect of a union of the Blackett and Webb fortunes. “There’s definitely a lot of elements brought together for a period drama. You look at her parents and there is no question about why she is the way she is. Invariably the mum isn’t that interesting. New York, Subscribe for only £5.49 a month and enjoy all the benefits of the printed paper as a digital replica. When Joan meets her again she offers her father’s card, not knowing of the consequences, should she ever need help in Singapore. “It was an adventure. How that informs his masculinity and that entitlement.”. “He’s outrageous and greedy and sort of has a lack of morals, but he’s also fascinating and funny.”, “I’m playing against type, which is always a bonus — I’m not an obvious choice to play a colonial mother,” says Jane Horrocks best known as Bubble in the hit series Absolutely Fabulous. What I tend to do when I go to new places is I pound the streets. Please refresh the page and try again. The cast – … I would go about things in a different way but knowing her circumstances I can justify and understand every action that she’s making.”. And this character The Major is an interesting fella. Married to Sylvia and father of Joan, Monty and Kate, Walter is the ruthless chairman of the illustrious rubber merchant and agency house of Blackett and Webb Limited, whose success is founded on the exploitation of the native communities and economy. They have a lightness and a bit of a silliness about them. There’s a World War going on but they’re sort of thinking, ‘Really? I went on a rainforest hike. "She gets it, and the relationship between the two of them about how they can manipulate the world around them via her sex really is extraordinary. Recognising similar qualities to his own in her, he brings her into the business world from which he has excluded his troublesome son, Monty. Get a round-up of stories from The Sunday Post every week. He is determined to show Matthew what he considers to be the main sights of Singapore: brothels and crass entertainment at the Great World, a type of amusement park where the weird and wonderful are crammed together, desperately trying to make money. Based on the 1978 novel by the late Irish author JG Farrell, it follows Walter and Sylvie Blackett. She’s a product of the life she was born into. Quite dark humour in some ways. © Receive mail from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors? Jane Horrocks told us more about the intense heat the case had to endure on set: “The best thing is to stay very still! There was biological testing on prisoners under no anaesthesia.
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