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Showing:
UK - ITV1 Network |Starts Saturday 29 April 9:05 PM
Ross Kemp talks here.
Heather Peace is
delighted to be one of the ‘lads’ in ULTIMATE FORCE.
“It’s probably the best gig an actor can get - being outside in the
summer, running around without many lines to learn. Lads are really easy
to get on with and there’s no trickiness about them. It’s really
hard for a girl to get these kinds of roles and I’d far rather play
the hero than the hero’s wife. It’s so much fun.”
Playing the only female SAS trooper means Heather has to get fit.
“I always do some preparation because I like to look as if I could do
the job. I compare Becca to someone like Kelly Holmes, who was actually
a PT instructor in the army, like Becca was, before going on to do the
running. I don’t get my body anything like hers but you have to get it
someway near.
“I play football and when we start filming I’ve usually just
finished a whole season so that gives me a little bit extra. I do a lot
of running and I’ve done the London Marathon a couple of times and
I’m also in a diving club. ULTIMATE FORCE tends to have a few naked
shower scenes and I like to look my best!”
The new series is no different - Becca’s first meeting with new
trooper Finn Younger (Jamie Michie) takes place in the shower. It’s
the start of a relationship that sees them ending up in bed together.
Explains Heather: “I’ve always played Becca as someone who doesn’t
have relationships because of her job. I imagine she would have a boy or
even a girl in every port. She certainly doesn’t get involved with
anyone at work. But Finn pretends he is leaving and she thinks he’s
cute – so why not, just for the night.
“Quite often, the only girl in a drama will end up playing all the
schmaltzy nonsense but, to the writers’ credit, ULTIMATE FORCE isn’t
like that. Even though Becca sleeps with Finn, she is still in
control.”
Heather felt no embarrassment in filming the sex scenes.
“I always find it quite comical. You’ve spent the day kissing a boy
and gone home. It obviously depends who you’re with but in every sex
scene I’ve done on TV I’ve been really lucky. Jamie was really easy
to get on with.”
In the fourth film, Becca poses as a hostage on a London tourist bus.
“It was like filming another drama because for the four weeks of
filming I was never with my boys. Robbie Gee plays a gangster and he is
such a classy actor. He’s a movie star really and we were lucky to get
him. If you’re not bouncing off the person you’re playing with it
doesn’t work – but luckily Robbie was really up for it.
“It was really hard for the other actors because they were literally
on the bus for weeks. We did go a bit stir crazy being on this small
space for all that time.” |
Heather also enjoyed riding a
motorbike in the first episode.
“That was great because all the lads apart from Ross and me had to
drive these four-wheel bikes. They were getting so angry because I was
upfront with my nice little two-wheeler. I have a motorbike of my own
and I love anything that involves funny modes of transport.”
Heather went straight from filming ULTIMATE FORCE to guest roles in
Casualty and Alistair McGowan drama Mayo before starting work on Kay
Mellor’s new series The Chase, set in a veterinary practice in
Yorkshire.
“It’s about the ups and downs of a tight-knit family unit and I play
Fiona Jones, the hard-done-by cousin who’s a veterinary nurse. She’s
the protagonist for a lot of the trouble that goes on at the surgery.
“It’s a great cast with Gaynor Faye, Nicola Stephenson and Keith
Barron, and it’s more like being in theatre than TV with fantastic six
page duologues. It’s so different for me. It’s physically and
mentally challenging doing ULTIMATE FORCE but The Chase is challenging
on the acting front with quite difficult emotional scenes.”
Adds Heather: “It’s filmed in Otley and I’m from Bradford so
I’ve been able to pop in for a cup of tea at my mum’s for the first
time in about nine years!”
Brighton-based Heather starred in four series of London’s Burning,
alongside her new ULTIMATE FORCE co-star Sam Callis. Her other credits
include Down to Earth, Where The Heart Is, Thunder Road, Doctors, Holby
City and Dangerfield. Her ladies football team, the White Hawks,
recently won the Sussex County championships.
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