The Hardacres star pauses his transformation for a rags-to-riches drama

Since the series tells a rags-to-riches story, there is some change in clothing throughout the series, which star Claire Cooper praised her costume designer Allison Byrne for.

“Having that eye and that grace and the way she conveys everything to everyone to make us look the way we look,” she explained in an interview.

“Alison really supported me on the journey. I’m not a darling. I liked wearing the rags. I had all these scars on my hands when they took some close-ups, so you could obviously see how hard Mary’s life is.” Lived and lives, as her hands were torn open with the knives while gutting the herring.

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According to the synopsis, “The Hardacres” follows the “lives, loves and fortunes” of the titular family “as they move from dirty fishing dock to a vast country estate in 1890s Yorkshire.”

Cooper further described the transformation, stating that “Yorkshire people are bunglers” and it was therefore crucial that the characters looked “like that”.

She continued: “The textures, the colors, the details. Everything was really thought out. And the same goes for the hair and makeup. The whole team was unreal. But I like the journey we’ve made from the rags to us.” The opulent era we’ve entered into, and they’ve entered into it quite beautifully. I know Mary loves this transition.

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“It was really fun for me to see how we do this little by little because they set it up really nicely in the first episode – because there are jumps in time so we can see how they started with a little more money and have improved their appearance over time.”

The new series begins on Monday, October 7, with the first episode about doctor Sam Hardacre, who has an “unfortunate accident” that results in him and his family losing their jobs and scrambling to find work , “or else end up on the street.” “.

The synopsis for Episode 1 continues: “His wife Mary, daughter Liza and mother-in-law Ma head to the gilded halls of Thornton Hall country estate in search of work.”

The Hardacres starts Monday October 7th at 9pm on Channel 5.

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