Sally Wainwright Reveals How Her Band Of ‘Riot Women’ Learned To Play A Tune — Series Mania
deadline.comSally Wainwright has assembled a band for her latest BBC series Riot Women but it turns out her cast could barely play a tune when they first came together.
The Happy Valley creator revealed today that just one of the five Riot Women leads had a musical background prior to cameras rolling – the lead singer, played by Rosalie Craig.
Made for the BBC and BritBox, Riot Women follows a group of middle aged women who form a punk rock quintet. It stars BAFTA-winner Joanna Scanlan, Tamsin Greig, Lorraine Ashbourne and Amelia Bullmore.
After learning their respective instruments from scratch for six months, Wainwright said the cast clicked musically almost immediately. “They rehearsed together as a band and they bonded,” she said during a Series Mania masterclass. “They were literally playing together and had to get to the end without stopping while playing at full speed.
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