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EMILY JOYCE INTERVIEWED
Emily plays Katie Bishop in Little Devil for ITV!
Your character is called Kate? Can you tell us about her story?
Katie is married to quite a wealthy, successful man. They have one child. She is a bit of a bored housewife having a lot of time on her hands and quite a lot of money. She likes all the kinds of things all girls like, shopping clothes. Her husband, Adrian has been wayward before and she suspects he is having an affair at the beginning of the film. She soon discovers that the woman who he is having the affair with is one of their closest friends and somebody that he works with. Katie is also probably quite threatened by her because Laura is a career woman and Katie is not. This is one of the most hurtful things that can happen to her. Instead of getting depressed, Katie rises in anger and gains a new lease of life through seeking her revenge on her husband in various different ways.
It’s a fantastic script – what attracted you to this role?
I have worked with David Richards with times before, Grafters which was also with Robson, Hero of the Hour, which was also with Maggie and Ross Kemp and Messiah II. I love working with David and I knew that anything he would be doing, would be great because he is such a good director. I liked the storyline. I loved the mix of pain and tragedy with high-camp.
Are there any similarities between you and your character?
I quite like shopping! I wouldn’t have the guts to do what she does in the story, seeking revenge. You need to be pretty self assured. I’m not a lady of leisure either – I’m a working mum.
Does Kate realise that the destruction of her marriage is affecting her daughter?
No. I don’t think she does which is the really sad thing. It only dawns on her at the end of the story. She realises how childish she has been and how the adults have been acting like children and the children have been very affected by it. The whole thing has to stop. Katie is quite a women in the end and takes the whole thing in hand.
Were you able to Life experience?
My children are much younger and they are both boys. I don’t know anything about girls. I don’t think it makes any difference whether you have children or not to play being a mum. Different people act in different ways with their children.
There is a bit of a buzz about the right way to bring up children and plenty of programmes on TV and articles in magazines about it – what do you think of them?
You can have a few rules… ‘no sweets before bedtime’ that’s quite a good rule. I do watch some of those programmes and I watch ‘House of tiny Tearaways’ and ‘Little Angels’ I always sit there feeling really smug and that I must be doing things right. We are all struggling children trying to look after children. We’re all six inside.
What have you enjoyed most whilst working with Chloe O’Sullivan Friend who plays Kate’s daughter, Zoe?
Chloe’s a fantastic girl who has her head screwed on. She is very direct. She asks lots of really interesting questions that grown-ups just don’t have the guts to ask. She acts everyone off the screen and is a brilliant and natural actress. It’s really quite frightening and I think one day, I’ll be begging her for a job!
It seems that there is an element of role reversal between the adults and the children – do you agree?
I love being childish and there are lots of things that I got up to during the filming of ‘Little Devil’ that gave me such a thrill. Shooting at James with a plastic pellet gun just to be spiteful was fun. I got all girly and screamy.
During the story, Will ‘sexes himself up’ - Have you ever changed your image to impress someone else?
I’ve never dramatically changed my image. I’ll get my haircut or dress up for a night out but that’s it!
What is the naughtiest thing you’ve ever done?
When I was a teenager, I had a party at my parent’s house whilst they were away on holiday. I was about fifteen and somebody broke a piece of furniture which was how mum and dad found out about the party. I was grounded for quite a while!
What were you like at school?
I was much too frightened to be naughty at school.
What is your earliest childhood memory?
I have a photograph of myself standing with my mum. I came up to her waist and my arms were wrapped tightly around her leg, hiding. That was me as a child. Frightened of everything – that’s my earliest memory.
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