\u201cHonestly, I was like, \u2018Why have they sent me this? She\u2019s so nice. I don\u2019t play nice. Who is she, Hannah Grose?’\u201d the RadioTimes.com<\/a> Pride Month Guest Editor<\/a> recalls of the dependable and protective housekeeper \u2013 whose story provides one of the most jaw-dropping twists in the show.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a tequila-fuelled summer! I had met a girl and, you know, some queer relationships move very fast. This one did\u2026 We were partying, I had loads of auditions, I wasn\u2019t booking which is weird, because I always tend to book every four or so. But I had about 20 auditions and nothing had come, but I didn\u2019t care because I was in love! And there was tequila!<\/p>\n \u201cAnd Hannah Grose came across my door and I went, \u2018You what? Why have they sent me that?\u2019 I wasn\u2019t aware of Flanagan\u2019s work, so I watched [The Haunting of] Hill House and [gasps<\/em>].<\/p>\n \u201cThe tape had to be in the next morning, and of course, I got to episode 5 of Hill House. And I was like, \u2018Okay, just one more episode.\u2019 And I was gripped. So, although I didn\u2019t think that I was the right person to play Hannah Grose at first\u2026 it was one of the most memorable and beautiful roles I\u2019ve had the honour of playing.\u201d<\/p>\n Hannah is a crucial part of Bly Manor, with her story taking a shock turn, and paving the way for the beautiful love story between Victoria Pedretti\u2019s Dani and Amelia Eve\u2019s Jamie.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a lesbian love story,\u201d Miller reflects. \u201cBut I think ultimately it\u2019s just a story about love, and lost love, and missed love, and the opportunity to love, so it encompasses all sorts of love. Love of self, love for children, queer love.<\/p>\n \u201cI know the lesbian story meant a lot to a lot of people. But I think also some of the straight stories \u2013 everything meant something to somebody, to every community, everyone could relate to something in that show.\u201d<\/p>\n Hannah Grose wasn\u2019t the last Flanagan role Miller would take on, with the actress later getting a call from the writer when he was creating his latest Netflix hit, The Fall of the House of Usher<\/a>. Miller played Victorine LaFourcade, a scientist who starts bending the rules of clinical trials to start testing her invention on human subjects.<\/p>\n \u201cHe just says, \u2018I\u2019ve got a character for you!\u2019 He wrote those characters for each of our personalities,\u201d Miller reveals.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s amazing. I had the privilege of watching a little bit as it was assembled, and it turned out so well. I was going, \u2018That\u2019s my favourite death. Oh, no, no, no, no, that one\u2019s my favourite.\u2019 I remember not being able to pick a favourite death!\u201d<\/p>\n Victorine is also a queer woman \u2013 but Miller explains that she never chooses her characters for their sexuality.<\/p>\n \u201cTheir sexuality doesn\u2019t really come into it. It\u2019s like, do I like the person? Do I like their world? And do they speak to me, does their whole story in itself speak to me? As opposed to the sexuality. It\u2019s always great when you do get to play some queer roles.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Thankfully, being a queer actress has only had a positive effect on Miller\u2019s career.<\/p>\n \u201cI think I\u2019ve been really fortunate in that respect\u2026 Because it means I am a queer actor playing these queer roles. And so, therefore, perhaps it\u2019s been more favourable to cast me in that respect. And therefore, the access I\u2019ve had to some of the roles I play, perhaps I wouldn\u2019t had if I weren\u2019t in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n One writer known for having queer representation at the forefront<\/a> of everything he does is Russell T Davies, who Miller worked with on the bleak and all too real dystopia\u00a0Years and Years<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI think recent history has taught us why that show is so important \u2013 current history today, what\u2019s happening around the world today,\u201d Miller points out.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s so freaking important, and I urge anyone who hasn\u2019t seen Years and Years to go back and watch that show. Russell T Davies is an incredible human.<\/p>\n \u201cFirst of all, shooting it was such a joy, I got very spoiled, his words are just delicious in the mouth. Although it was fictional, the story was so much bigger than the sum of one, of my character, this journey, and it always is, but particularly in Years and Years. Russell has his great way of making you cry and laugh in the same breath, as life is. He has a wonderful way of tapping into that.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd the reason why it\u2019s so important is because of what then happened afterwards, with COVID and quarantine, and what\u2019s going on now \u2013 the genocide that\u2019s happening around the world.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not just in Palestine, it\u2019s also happening in the Congo, there are other wars going on. We feel at a loss to stop it. Whoever did what, people are dying. Mothers can\u2019t feed their children. Fathers can\u2019t bury their sons. People are dying. They\u2019re orphans.<\/p>\n \u201cI was watching a report in the Congo. There were about 30 kids waiting to be fed, all those children are orphaned, shivering because it\u2019s raining, wearing nothing. So Russell T Davies highlights and taps into our humanity.<\/p>\n \u201cThat scene where you have the refugee \u2013 you know, we\u2019re sending refugees to Rwanda \u2013 but seeing where the refugee doesn\u2019t die on the boat. That was the outrage, and it had to be him. It wasn\u2019t Viktor, it had to be Daniel to get that response from some audiences. \u2018It\u2019s not something that happens to them over there.\u2019 He\u2019s great at doing that. To have his words, to speak like to that, is just always an honour.\u201d<\/p>\n While Davies has now returned to Doctor Who<\/a> as showrunner, Miller made her debut on the show in the 2015 Peter Capaldi episode Hell Bent<\/a> as the General.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was mad! Bloody mad,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI remember Capaldi, he was wonderful, really sweet. Seeing the Daleks for the first time \u2013 they\u2019re massive things! They\u2019re terrifying. I\u2019m not scared of them on screen, but in real life, bloody hell. And those sets are amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n When it was announced that Jodie Whittaker was leaving the show, rumours were rife about who would play the next incarnation of the Doctor \u2013 and plenty of them revolved around Miller<\/a>.<\/p>\n As it turns out, she never actually auditioned, explaining: \u201cIt was like, \u2018This is the first I\u2019m hearing about it.\u2019 [I asked] my agent, \u2018Do you know?\u2019 \u2018No, I don\u2019t know anything about it either.\u2019 I think there was some fans who were raring for that to happen, but actually, I think it couldn\u2019t be better cast.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, Doctor Who cast Ncuti Gatwa<\/a>, who Miller worked with on Sex Education<\/a> when she took on the role of Maxine Tarrington. But that almost didn\u2019t happen either, with Miller nearly turning down the role because she loved the show so much.<\/p> \u201cI didn\u2019t want to do Sex Education. Like, \u2018No, I don\u2019t want to do that show because it\u2019s going to spoil it for me.\u2019 It\u2019s such a good show. I didn\u2019t want to dispel the disbelief. They asked me three times, I was like, \u2018Oh god, go on then.\u2019 I had such a good time. I\u2019m so glad I said yes. But it did dispel the disbelief. I didn\u2019t watch the second series until a couple of years after it was out.\u201d<\/p>\n She adds of Gatwa in Doctor Who: \u201cI think he\u2019s perfectly suited. I haven\u2019t seen it yet. But I\u2019m absolutely going to delve into that world. I\u2019m so glad that Russell is back, I\u2019m super excited to watch these great, great beings I know do what they do best.\u201d<\/p>\n Perhaps about to cause the most iconic writing collaboration of recent years, she casually adds: \u201cMike Flanagan is a massive fan of RTD as well. And a massive fan of of Doctor Who. I would just want to get them both in a room together. 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