CALL THE MIDWIFE: JESSICA RAINE IS NURSE JENNY LEE

January 10, 2012 by uktva in BBC

New BBC drama series Call The Midwife takes us back the 1950′s where new qualified nurse Jenny Lee gets a rude awakening about her new life.

NURSE JENNY LEE arrives at Nonnatus House in 1957, at the age of 22, completely unaware of the world she is about to enter. Believing she’s accepted a job with a small private hospital, it comes as somewhat of a surprise to JENNY to find she’s moving into a convent. Furthermore, the deprivation of the East End is a huge culture shock for the young woman who has enjoyed a privileged upbringing in the Home Counties, and spent time in Paris before training as a nurse. However, although initially shocked by the conditions in which her patients live, JENNY comes to accept the material limitations of the world in which she works, and to love the people who must live there.

Jessica Raine says of “Jenny walks into Nonnatus House quite green to the East End way of life, but she also has quite an old head on young shoulders in many ways as she’s running away from a mysterious relationship. She’s young, she’s 22, and she sees all these amazing life stories happening in front of her. She’s constantly learning and re-evaluating her own way of seeing the world. I really like that, I like people who can change their opinions and she does that during the course of the series.”

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