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Wednesday, 4th August 2021 at 9:00 am
When I speak to Suranne Jones in early July, the star of Channel 4’s new drama I Am Victoria is self-isolating. She’s currently in the middle of shooting the second series of BBC period romp Gentleman Jack, which has been forced to pause production amidst the ongoing pandemic. “It’s a bit of a mess,” she admits. “Gentleman Jack should have been done by now but we’re not – it’ll have taken over a year by the time we finally finish at the end of October. It’s crazy. And you get to a place where… I said to my husband, I’m frightened to go to work – obviously I’m double-jabbed and I’m in a testing regime, but it’s this thing that everyone’s going, ‘You may have been in contact…’