
Her rural family life is somewhat different to her own upbringing. I want to get out of the door as quickly as possible, so that I can get home.” “I am a mother first and my job is my job, it’s not my life. Motherhood (which came unexpectedly early) has given her “a different kind of drive”, she says. “It films for six months and then I take six months off to be with my children.” “It couldn’t have been more perfect,” says Wilde. She and her husband - Alan Pownall, the singer for electro band Pale - moved to Somerset just before she got the part. It helps, she says, that home is close by. “I mean I guess it’s what people want to see,” says Gabriella Wilde, 29, who plays Caroline Penvenen, the coquettish heiress who refuses to abide by 18th century codes of behaviour. For Turner, it must all be getting a bit old by now, but for the rest of the cast, it’s an opportunity to gently poke fun at him. The hysteria around Turner’s chest seems to reach such a fever pitch every year, with some chatter that the show has been eclipsed by fraught debates around whether or not it is acceptable for female viewers to openly ogle the actor. And just like that, the nation will be hooked for another summer to this curious drama about a Cornish mining town. Striding naked but for a pair of breeches from the sea, his abs glistening, he resembles an 18th century James Bond. After bitter complaints, last year, that there weren’t enough sightings of Aidan Turner’s incomparable - and highly controversial - torso), the writers have clearly decided to give the people what they want.Īnd who can blame them? In the opening scene of the fourth series, which airs tomorrow night, Ross Poldark finally has his Daniel Craig moment.
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The new series of Poldark gets off to a frankly preposterous start.
