BBC Dope Girls star Julianne Nicholson has opened up about her role in the upcoming drama series and admitted she experienced a career first whilst filming.
The synopsis of the show reads: “It is the end of World War One. As Britain celebrates the Armistice on the streets of London, men return from the front expecting to rejoin society and pick up where they left off.
“But a newly empowered generation of women are loath to simply return to the kitchen.
“Using Soho’s expanding illicit underground clubland scene as their playground, women explore previously unimaginable opportunities on either side of the law.”
Dope Girls depicts in detail the birth of the modern nightlife industry which has been guided by hard-fought female endeavours.
Eliza Scanlen plays Violet Davies, one of the first wave of female officers, who are assigned to go undercover and investigate the illicit world of underground Soho nightclubs.
Julianne Nicholson portrays Kate Galloway in the new BBC series
BBC
Billie Cassidy played by Umi Myers, is introduced as a dazzling bohemian dancer, whose life is irrevocably changed by Kate’s arrival.
Nicholson plays Kate Galloway who is married, has a teenage daughter and works in the local butcher shop.
When the war ends and come back to resume their jobs and the women are being forced back into their homes.
Within the first few scenes, Kate is widowed and finds out that her husband has left them with a lot of debt.
The star admitted the career first she encountered when working on the series
BBC
She's forced to take drastic action and basically, the rest of the series is unpicking that and where it leads next.
When discussing her time filming the series and revealing what scene had been the most fun to film, she explained: “The biggest scenes were the scenes that we filmed in Trafalgar Square in the fountain, because I had never worked on a volume stage before. It’s like being on a big iMax screen.
“And you’re seeing this whole world playing out, but depending on where you’re filming and where you are in Trafalgar Square, those images change.
“To be sitting in the fountain in Trafalgar Square in 1918 surrounded by people who are celebrating the end of the war in a really debaucherous way.
“It was a very surreal and exciting moment that I had never pictured for myself.”
When summarising the series, she added: “This quote is: ‘Bad girls aren’t villains, they’re transgressive forces within patriarchal cultures.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:
Dope Girls airs tonight on BBC One
BBC
“When made to choose between wreaking destruction or accepting their powerlessness, they choose destruction’.”
Dope Girls airs on BBC One tonight from 9.15pm and is also available on BBC iPlayer.
