Jessica Hynes has said she
hopes her new sitcom about Suffragettes will inform viewers about their
history.
The Twenty Twelve actress has
written and is starring in Up The Women, a BBC Four comedy set in 1910.
She told the Radio Times:
"It's our history and it's empowering, and yet we're detached from it, and
that's wrong.
"You get young girls
saying, 'Didn't Parliament want to talk to them, and then they started doing
all that militant stuff, and it was bad, and they didn't behave themselves, did
they?' No. That's not what happened."
The sitcom, which also stars
The Thick Of It's Rebecca Front, started out as a comedy film Jessica was going
to write for the BBC about a suffragette plot to kill Prime Minister Asquith.
Jessica, who wrote and starred
in Spaced with Simon Pegg, said she changed her mind after researching the
subject more.
She said: "I started to
realise how dark it was, reading all these lists of women who were beaten up
and killed.
"You think of Emily
Davison as the only martyr, but it was all quite serious. It was no longer
Carry On Up The Suffrage. I was crying into my tea."
Up The Women begins on BBC
Four on Thursday May 30. (Source)
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