“So I love that Lucille arrived at Nonnatus House during the Big Freeze [the famously cold winter of 1963].”Leonie has also admitted how she finds the scenes they tackle on the show very moving.She continued: “We don’t have the pill yet.
We will see more backstreet abortions and those are some of the most harrowing scenes.“I often want to cry after filming an emotional scene, but you can’t afford to lose it completely.“I come off set every day thinking, ‘Women are amazing,’ when you look at what we have had to deal with.”Outside of the hit series, Leonie’s breakthrough role came as Cherry Patterson in Lenny Henry’s drama Danny and the Human Zoo in 2015.She also landed a role in the Black Mirror episode Hated in the Nation back in.
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