{"id":40928,"date":"2023-12-01T13:37:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T12:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1937525"},"modified":"2023-12-01T14:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T13:11:20","slug":"one-night-star-addresses-shows-central-mystery-memory-is-malleable","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/one-night-star-addresses-shows-central-mystery-memory-is-malleable\/","title":{"rendered":"One Night star addresses show\u2019s central mystery: \u2018Memory is malleable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The six-part thriller stars Jodie Whittaker, Nicole da Silva and Yael Stone. <\/p>

By Abby Robinson\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 01 December 2023 at 12:37 PM<\/p>

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Australian thriller One Night<\/a>, which is now available to watch in the UK on Paramount Plus<\/a>, revolves around three female friends whose lives were forever changed following a traumatic event 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

Tess (Jodie Whittaker), Simone (<\/span><\/span><\/span>Nicole da Silva) and Hat <\/span><\/span>(Yael Stone) were inseparable in their youth, their sisterhood unshakeable, until that fateful night saw them drift apart, pursuing lives away from one another.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But in the six-part series, they are forced to confront past wounds and old secrets when Simone announces that she\u2019s written a novel about what happened \u2013 which is on the cusp of being published.<\/p>\n

Speaking to RadioTimes.com<\/a> about the role that the women\u2019s individual memories of that destabilising event play in the narrative, Da Silva said: \u201c<\/span><\/span>One of the lines that did jump out at me from Hat was when she says [to my character Simone], \u2018Just because you wrote a book about it, doesn\u2019t mean your memories are truer.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I just remember reading that line and then obviously doing it on the day with Yael and going, \u2018Absolutely.\u2019 Simone is taking this position where she\u2019s hard and fast in what she remembers is the truth and how it went down, but the other two have a completely different experience of it. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s really interesting that the show sits in that place where memory is malleable and it does mutate according to who the person is and what they need.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Da Silva went on to discuss Simone\u2019s father, who is rapidly losing his memory due to dementia.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is why <\/span>Emily Ballou, our writer,<\/span> is so clever,\u201d she said. \u201cShe has this whole story about memory and whose memory it is to tell, whose stories to tell, and on the sidelines she\u2019s got this character who is quite physically losing their ability to remember and to know who they are and to know who their closest ones are.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe does that beautiful mirroring that just creeps up on you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n