{"id":6547,"date":"2021-11-01T13:56:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T12:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1483893"},"modified":"2021-11-01T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T13:30:16","slug":"tahirah-sharif-on-why-the-tower-is-different-from-other-police-dramas","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/tahirah-sharif-on-why-the-tower-is-different-from-other-police-dramas\/","title":{"rendered":"Tahirah Sharif on why The Tower is different from \u201cother police dramas\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Published: Monday, 01 November 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Tahirah Sharif (The Haunting of Bly Manor) has teased how her upcoming ITV series The Tower is different from \u201cother police dramas\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sharif, who plays PC Lizzie\u00a0Adama, one of the two female leads in The Tower cast, told RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press that the show will offer something new, \u201chumanis[ing]\u201d police officers while addressing their \u201cunconscious biases\u201d.<\/p>\n

The actress was sent the scripts before she auditioned for the part, and described \u201cspending a day\u201d reading all three episodes, which proved a contrast to past police crime dramas she\u2019d auditioned for.<\/p>

\u201cI\u2019ve auditioned for other police dramas or crime dramas, and a lot of the time, I read the script, and they\u2019re very hard to read. There are so many different characters and [it\u2019s] \u2018DS\u2019 this and \u2018DC\u2019 that \u2018PC\u2019 this, and I get quite lost, and I can\u2019t get a clear sense of who these people are and their relationships to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cWhen I read Tower, it was genuinely just like reading a book. I couldn\u2019t stop turning [the pages]. I just wanted to keep reading each page and find out what happened. And every single character was written so well. And their personality traits [were] so clear that it made it so easy to read. I remember thinking, \u2018This is a really good script. This is a really good script and I really want this role\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gemma Whelan also stars in ITV drama The Tower<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

She added that the drama will \u201chumanise police officers and show that they make mistakes, or let emotion[s] lead them at times, or let their own kind of, I guess unconscious biases lead them in different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

The series is based on Post Mortem, the first in Kate London\u2019s Metropolitan series of novels, which centre on the characters of DS Sarah Collins (played by Gemma Whelan) and another female officer, Lizzie, played by Sharif.<\/p>\n

While you\u2019re waiting, take a look at our other <\/b>Drama<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0coverage, or find out what else is on with our\u00a0<\/b>TV Guide<\/b><\/span><\/a>.<\/b><\/span><\/div><\/body><\/html>\n
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