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Andrea Riseborough on Co-Parenting With The Regime’s Dictator
“I spent a great deal of time moving air purifiers and bowls of steaming potatoes in and out of rooms.”
After four-and-a-half episodes allowing her boss to cosplay as her son’s mother, Agnes, the loyal, long-suffering aide to The Regime ’s dictator Elena Vernham, played by Kate Winslet, finally decides to seek freedom for herself and her child. The way that Jess Hobbs, who co-directed, and Stephen and Will constructed that scene so beautifully reflected how meaningless those lives are to people in power who have no idea what it is to work a day. Before Elena takes a shine to Oscar, Agnes is complicit because, as one might in a situation of such terror, she’s self-preserving-ly maintaining this role within the palace because it gives her an illusion of power, so that she can cope and provide for her son and know that they’re not going to be starved or put in a position of horrible danger.
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