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"Shall we throw a Twilight star into the mix? We&amp;#039;ve got another White Heat chat for you... and this time it&amp;#039;s with MyAnna Buring. MyAnna plays Lily in the decade-spanning BBC drama, so we had a chat with her about the show, her awful costumes and what we can expect for Lily... &amp;gt; White Heat Claire Foy, Sam Claflin Q&amp;amp;A: &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s an emotional journey&amp;#039; &amp;gt; White Heat Reece Ritchie Q&amp;amp;A: &amp;#039;Parties were cooler in the 60s&amp;#039; &amp;gt; White Heat Lee Ingleby Q&amp;amp;A: &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s almost like a Shakespeare play&amp;#039; Tell us about your character Lily. &amp;quot;Lily&amp;#039;s the kind of part that is just a bit of a dream for any actor... I read it and I just adored her, I loved her. She&amp;#039;s incredibly feisty but she&amp;#039;s also vulnerable, she&amp;#039;s strong, but she&amp;#039;s sensitive, she&amp;#039;s an art student.  &amp;quot;She comes from a place up north where her parents expect her to leave school early and start a job and be happy with that, but Lily&amp;#039;s the kind of character who is born into that world and always dreams of there being something more than that and going to art school in London represents what that more is for her.  &amp;quot;I think when we first meet her she&amp;#039;s an incredibly excited and idealistic and vivacious person, but I keep saying as well that she&amp;#039;s a grafter. Every time life throws a hurdle in front of her, she finds a way of getting over it or moving around it. I think she&amp;#039;s very persistent.&amp;quot; She&amp;#039;s been described as a fragile beauty - do you think she&amp;#039;s got a bit more to her, then? &amp;quot;I do. I quite like that description, it sounds quite poetic. There are elements to her where she&amp;#039;s a fragile beauty, but that makes me think of someone who finds life quite difficult to handle, who maybe would break quite easily. And although I definitely think that Lily is sensitive and thrown into a lot of situations where her resolve and where her strength is tested, I think actually Lily&amp;#039;s quite strong.  &amp;quot;She has this grafter element to her personality that kind of pulls her through anything and although she can be emotional I don&amp;#039;t think she&amp;#039;s necessarily sentimental. I don&amp;#039;t think she will wallow. I think once she realises that something needs to be done, even if it&amp;#039;s difficult she&amp;#039;ll get it done and she&amp;#039;ll do it. That might mean breaking down for two days but then she picks herself up and she just carries on going.   &amp;quot;We see her dreams being crushed not once but several times yet she gets up and finds a new way of going through life and she finds a new ambition and a new aim. I think that&amp;#039;s quite interesting. So I think although &amp;#039;fragile beauty&amp;#039; is a beautiful description and apt in some ways, I don&amp;#039;t think it&amp;#039;s a completely fair description of her.&amp;quot; How does Lily change over the years? &amp;quot;I think before we meet Lily, she comes from a place where she is, I fear, somebody who&amp;#039;s a big fish in a small pond. But she&amp;#039;s really aware that where she&amp;#039;s from is not enough. She has a bigger dream, although she maybe can&amp;#039;t quite articulate it. I think she settles on painting as being an explanation for that dream but I think really she just needs to move and live in a bigger life where people around her are more aware of the bigger world.  &amp;quot;So she ends up in London and when we first meet her in London, I think she&amp;#039;s a young girl who has her insecurities but is quite strong and quite feisty. She&amp;#039;s politically active, definitely, very much more so because of her best friend Charlotte, who&amp;#039;s very politically aware. I think she&amp;#039;s very much part of that new youth movement that&amp;#039;s coming through in the &amp;#039;60s and into the &amp;#039;70s and that swinging London.  &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s a lifestyle that she really embraces and takes a part of and then as we move with her she starts dabbling in alternate religions, she goes to India, she travels, she explores - trying to find herself essentially. And then in the &amp;#039;80s she becomes a bit of a child of Thatcher really. She becomes her own businesswoman and I can&amp;#039;t think of a bigger change really! So that&amp;#039;s quite a big journey!&amp;quot; You mentioned that Lily is best friends with Charlie - what are her relationships with the other characters like? &amp;quot;Lily gets on with everyone. The stories and the friendships that we see that she has are obviously with Charlotte, who&amp;#039;s her best friend, and then with Orla, who&amp;#039;s her roommate and who becomes a huge support. Orla&amp;#039;s kind of the mother of this group of seven but Orla very much becomes an important friend to Lily and a great confidante to her.  &amp;quot;And also I think with Alan she finds a connection, because they both come from the north. They both come from a place where their families never really had huge ambitions for them and yet they&amp;#039;ve sort of moved away from home and they&amp;#039;re striving to achieve something bigger than their families dreamed for them or even thought they should bother with.  &amp;quot;I think there&amp;#039;s a real connection there with him, but I think in every other way possible I think initially Alan is a polar opposite to Lily. He becomes a friend in a lot of other ways but they are incredibly different people.&amp;quot;  What&amp;#039;s been your favourite decade to film? &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s really hard. I like all of them, to be honest, for different reasons. Filming in all of them as well has made me appreciate how lucky we are to be in the decade we&amp;#039;re in - we have the best of all these worlds now and more.  &amp;quot;I think I loved the &amp;#039;60s for the sense of possibility, but I also think that&amp;#039;s because of the ages they are and they&amp;#039;re embarking on this new big adventure. I think that&amp;#039;s quite exciting. Then I think the &amp;#039;80s I found quite intriguing as well maybe because I think Lily&amp;#039;s storyline is really interesting in the &amp;#039;80s, the changes she makes and the challenges she faces then. I&amp;#039;ve enjoyed that period a lot.&amp;quot; Have you had to wear any awful costumes? &amp;quot;Oh yes! Check me out in the &amp;#039;80s! I&amp;#039;ve got some pretty good hair going on in the &amp;#039;80s, oh yes. It&amp;#039;s a goodie. I think I got away lightly in the &amp;#039;70s. I got some great skirts and scarves and all of that jazz. I&amp;#039;d love to steal Lily&amp;#039;s costumes in the &amp;#039;70s - the costume department knows if any of them disappear it&amp;#039;ll be completely because of me!  &amp;quot;I think the &amp;#039;70s has been my favourite and the &amp;#039;80s have probably been my worst. Make-up wise, the &amp;#039;90s are interesting as well because of the ageing. That&amp;#039;s definitely interesting.&amp;quot; What do you think of comparisons between White Heat and shows like Our Friends In The North? &amp;quot;I completely understand the comparisons. I think the main difference with White Heat is that Our Friends In The North is about four characters who come from one place and then grow up and move out in the world, whereas here you&amp;#039;ve got seven very, very different people from different backgrounds and different parts of the British Empire really, who get together and are forced together in this situation in London, and then they grow from there.  &amp;quot;So I guess that&amp;#039;s the main difference, but then of course there are so many similarities with following people through different decisions and being able to watch how they change and how they interact and how they stop interacting and how they evolve but how ultimately they are all intrinsically connected whether they are together or apart.&amp;quot; How would you persuade people to tune in? &amp;quot;I think this is drama at its most exciting. I think these are also stories that we tell so well in the UK, these stories where we start with characters in one time and then we follow them through, and at the same time we don&amp;#039;t only get to relate to and get to know characters, but we also get to essentially go through a bit of a history lesson or a history reminder.  &amp;quot;I love watching things that I don&amp;#039;t only enjoy for entertainment but that I kind of learn things from or am reminded of things from, so I think that&amp;#039;s a great reason to tune in.&amp;quot; White Heat begins on Thursday, March 8 at 9pm on BBC Two. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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