Tamsin Greig opens up about Belgravia’s traumatic death scene and dealing with grief
TAMSIN Greig has opened up about Belgravia’s traumatic death scene and dealing with grief.
The new ITV period drama sees the 53-year-old actress play Anne Trenchard, a mother who is tasked with keeping a huge family secret following the death of her daughter.
The heartbreaking scenes air in the first episode, and Tamsin reveals that grief lies at the centre of the storyline.
Speaking to The Sun Online and other media at a screening of Belgravia, she explained: “Really at the heart of it, is a story of how people live with grief. And I think that that’s a universal.
“And that may well be, one of our greatest problems today, is that we just won’t sit with our grief and see what happens when you take it seriously.”
As for the death scenes, which sees Anne comfort her daughter Sophia (Emily Reid) in her final moments, Tamsin said it was “hard” to go to such a heartbroken place in her mind and body.
She said: “Doing that kind of stuff with Emily who plays the daughter, whose such a fabulous actor she’a so present, I didn’t really have to much except watch her.
“Even thinking about it is making me quite emotional because she is such a present actor and so truthful and you just have to observe and allow yourself to be moved by it.
“But it’s hard, you have to go somewhere so that it feels authentic.”
As the series progresses and jumps ahead in time, viewers will see Anne confide in Lady Brockenhurst (Harriet Walter) about her loss and their shared grief, with both women handling it differently.
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Tamsin said: “What I also think is beautiful is that you see all of that, which is kind of the private grief and then you see a sort of actor like Harriet Walter who is told that she may have an offspring and you see all of that grief contained, in a public way.
“And, so she does a really marvellous thing where you see it all but it’s all held.
“But it’s all about loss and how you handle that terror.”
Belgravia starts at 9pm on ITV.