ELLISE CHAPPELL
ELLISE Chappell should have known something was brewing long before she grabbed her big role in Poldark.
In her previous job in a cafe, she used to serve a cuppa to the BBC show’s executive producer Karen Thrussell.
“I had previously served her coffee. I like to think it was all meant to be,” said Ellise.
The actor has previously told how she was on her way back to the very same cafe “to ask for my job back” when she got the call to say the role was hers.
She added: “I just kind of turned around and skipped home.”
A twist of fate is also about to affect Ellise’s character, the innocent Morwenna – though for her the results are not so positive.
One of a number of new faces introduced at the beginning of the current run, we’ve witnessed Elizabeth’s cousin and former governess fall in love with Ross Poldark’s brother-in-law Drake Carne.
The pair even promised to marry before Elizabeth’s dastardly husband George ensured that plan was put to rest.
As Debbie Horsfield, who adapted the story from Winston Graham novels, has said: “They inadvertently got mixed up in the Warleggan and Poldark feud and they’re innocent casualties of that.
“It’s very much Romeo and Juliet in that they’re from warring families.”
When it looked like Drake would hang by the noose, Morwenna allowed herself to be blackmailed, as she tells her sister, “to save the life of the man I loved”.
She now finds herself pregnant and wedded to the gruesome Osborne Whitworth, a vile and violent man she refers to as “a monster”.
Ellise said: “Her struggle comes from what her heart is telling her and her duties.
“She’s become a pawn in George’s constant games and he uses her to further his own aspirations, which is sad because as much as she has the courage to try and take control of her own life, ultimately that is taken away from her.”
There are two more episodes before the final credits roll on series three and it’s unclear whether Morwenna and Drake (Harry Richardson) will enjoy a happy ever after. Ellise hopes they do. She said: “Morwenna has