THE WOMAN IN WHITE
COMING TO A televisionscreen near you soon. Susan Vidler is The Woman In White,
and this time it’s personal. ‘I have to stop doing screaming roles, I really do,’ says the actress who perforated ear-drums in Trainspotting as the heroin-addicted mother whose baby dies.
‘Before I did the dead baby scene, they
E] kept saying, “DO you want to see the baby because it looks quite realistic and we don’t want you completely freaked out,” ’ she remembers. ‘I said I would wait to see it on the first take. and that was such a mistake
H because I caught sight of the baby just before
the take. and l was really shocked. The model actually felt cold. and she had real hair and looked really like the little girls I had been
working with in the film.‘
Vidler has made a career of playing screwed up, tormented or just plain tragic characters. Before Alison in Trainspotting, she appeared in Cracker as a blind kidnapping
victim who is doused with petrol and threatened with a match by her attacker. In
It's all ghostly thrills and period frills on the set of TV drama BBC smanws satanic abuse drama, Flowers
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SUSAN VIDLER take time out from the shooting schedule. was sexually abused as a child. In Naked, she
Words: Eddie Gibb was a young homeless woman sleeping rough
in Soho. trying to restrain her barking mad
Dressed to impress: This Life's Andrew Lincoln shows Tara Fitzgerald (centre) and Justine Waddell his masterful side
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