{"id":16835,"date":"2022-06-13T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1660344"},"modified":"2022-06-13T08:31:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T06:31:13","slug":"sherwood-star-joanne-froggatt-reveals-how-it-felt-to-play-the-antagonist","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/sherwood-star-joanne-froggatt-reveals-how-it-felt-to-play-the-antagonist\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherwood star Joanne Froggatt reveals how it felt to play the \u201cantagonist\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Flora Carr\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 13 June 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Downton Abbey\u2019s Joanne Froggatt has revealed how it felt to play an \u201cantagonist\u201d Conservative councillor in new BBC One drama Sherwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Set in a Nottinghamshire mining village, the show\u2019s cast of characters includes\u00a0Sarah (Froggatt), who\u2019s\u00a0campaigning to be a local councillor. However, her political views differ from the bulk of her community.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the series press launch attended by RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other outlets, Froggatt discussed researching the miners\u2019 strikes in the 1980s, which form an important backdrop to the series and to the fabric of the local community portrayed.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously as you can see, my character is striving to be the Tory councillor, so she might be \u2013 you could say she\u2019s an antagonist in the story,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, being four years old in 1984, I was obviously too young to have any possible understanding of what was happening [with the miners\u2019 strikes], but even at that young age, I have vague memories of seeing news footage\u2026 It was very prevalent in my childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n