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Rules of the Game star Maxine Peake has said that she\u2019s found witty female characters are hard to come by when looking at dramas and that a sense of humour is \u201cwritten out of female stories\u201d a lot of the time.<\/p>\n
The BAFTA-winning actor is set to star in BBC One\u2019s upcoming thriller Rules of the Game \u2013 a four-parter about sexual politics in the modern workplace \u2013 as Sam, an executive manager working in a family-run business.<\/p>\n
Speaking to\u00a0RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press, Peake said it was the \u201ccomplex\u201d characters in Rules of the Game that drew her to the BBC One drama, adding that female characters with a sense of humour are \u201cquite rare\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI just felt that they were really well-drawn female characters, which I sometimes find [with] dramas, there\u2019ll be a female lad but you can\u2019t quite work out the character. It\u2019s a bit of an every person\u2026and I just felt that I knew all these people from the first episode.<\/p>\n \u201cThey were complex and they were funny \u2013 there\u2019s a seam of dark humour I think that runs through it which really appeals to my sense of humour.<\/p> \u201cEven though it is a thriller of sorts, it has got some lighter moments and I think all the characters, especially female characters, are witty which a lot of the time again gets written out of female stories, that we do like to have a laugh. I think it\u2019s a big survival technique among women, our sense of humour.<\/p>\n \u201cSo yeah, I just thought it was a really great script, there\u2019s something to say and a lot of good female characters, which I think is quite rare.\u201d<\/p>\n The series also stars Sex Education<\/a>\u2018s Rakhee Thakrar, Life\u2019s Alison Steadman and Enola Holmes<\/a> star Susan Wokoma.<\/p>\n Rules of the Game airs on BBC One airs on Tuesday 11th January, with all four episodes arriving on BBC iPlayer. Visit our Drama<\/a> hub for more news, interviews and features, or find something to watch with our TV Guide<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Lauren Morris Published: Tuesday, 04 January 2022 at 12:00 am Rules of the Game star Maxine Peake has said that she\u2019s found witty female characters are hard to come by when looking at dramas and that a sense of humour is \u201cwritten out of female stories\u201d a lot of the time. The BAFTA-winning actor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9457,"template":"","categories":[5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/rules-of-the-games-maxine-peake-says-humour-is-often-written-out-of-female-stories.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/rules-of-the-games-maxine-peake-says-humour-is-often-written-out-of-female-stories-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/rules-of-the-games-maxine-peake-says-humour-is-often-written-out-of-female-stories-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/rules-of-the-games-maxine-peake-says-humour-is-often-written-out-of-female-stories.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/rules-of-the-games-maxine-peake-says-humour-is-often-written-out-of-female-stories.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/rules-of-the-games-maxine-peake-says-humour-is-often-written-out-of-female-stories.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/rules-of-the-games-maxine-peake-says-humour-is-often-written-out-of-female-stories.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Lauren Morris Published: Tuesday, 04 January 2022 at 12:00 am Rules of the Game star Maxine Peake has said that she\u2019s found witty female characters are hard to come by when looking at dramas and that a sense of humour is \u201cwritten out of female stories\u201d a lot of the time. The BAFTA-winning actor…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/9456"}],"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\/9457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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