Whittaker portrays Orla in the second season, which will premiere on Sunday 29th October.<\/p>\n
The highly anticipated second season will centre on a woman\u2019s prison, with Whittaker acting alongside Bella Ramsey and Tamara Lawrance, who all arrive at Carlingford Prison on the same day and are left to navigate prison life.<\/p>\n
Speaking to press including RadioTimes.com<\/a>, Jodie Whittaker revealed there was \u201ca very upsetting time\u201d where she thought she may not be able to film for the series as she was filming for something else.<\/p> She explained: \u201cI was accidentally method in this. I was late by, like, two and a half weeks to film because I was coming back from another job, and there was a very tense window where we didn\u2019t know if my dates were going to work.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd it was a very upsetting time to think that I wasn\u2019t going to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n As we now know, Whittaker is very much part of Time, with first look images<\/a> giving fans an insight as what to expect from the drama.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The actress explained that once she got on set, she felt as thought she didn\u2019t know what she was doing.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI was just in this freefall of \u2018I\u2019ve done so much googling, statistics\u2019, and then you\u2019re in the reality of it and actually that in itself worked because Orla is in that pit of blind panic and confusion,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Season 2 of Time aims to offer \u201ca moving and high-stakes portrayal of life inside a women\u2019s prison\u201d, with just three episodes that\u2019ll captivate viewers.<\/p>\n Time season 2 will premiere on BBC One on Sunday 29th October at 9pm. Season 1 is available to watch on BBC iPlayer<\/a> now.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our Drama<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a>to find out what\u2019s on.<\/strong><\/p>\n Want to visit Death in Paradise locations in Guadeloupe at a discount? <\/strong>Radio Times is offering savings of up to 7 per cent for registered users booking their next holiday with travel website Expedia. <\/strong>Claim your exclusive Radio Times Expedia holiday discount now<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Try Radio Times magazine today and get 10 issues for only \u00a310 \u2013 subscribe now<\/a> and celebrate the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who with a special issue of Radio Times. <\/strong>For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Whittaker will play Orla in the second season of the BBC drama. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":38475,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/10\/jodie-whittaker-almost-missed-out-on-time-role-it-was-very-upsetting-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/10\/jodie-whittaker-almost-missed-out-on-time-role-it-was-very-upsetting-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/10\/jodie-whittaker-almost-missed-out-on-time-role-it-was-very-upsetting-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/10\/jodie-whittaker-almost-missed-out-on-time-role-it-was-very-upsetting-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/10\/jodie-whittaker-almost-missed-out-on-time-role-it-was-very-upsetting-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/10\/jodie-whittaker-almost-missed-out-on-time-role-it-was-very-upsetting-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/10\/jodie-whittaker-almost-missed-out-on-time-role-it-was-very-upsetting-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Whittaker will play Orla in the second season of the BBC drama.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/38474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tamara](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/1.-Tamara-Lawrance-as-Abi-Cochrane-Bella-Ramsey-as-Kelsey-Morgan-and-Jodie-Whittaker-as-Orla-ORiordan-in-Time-series-two-coming-soon-to-BBC1-and-iPlayer-a246bd7.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"Tamara")
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