Hunt is on for Next Top Dog
and very intelligent, and just wants to create a better world for the touched but also for women in general.
“It’s very exciting. It’s a giant cast and it’s the first time I’ve done anything American to this extent so it’s great to be on a brand new show in a brand new world.
“I’d never done VFX and green screen work like that before. It’s a lot of fun and been a huge learning curve for me.
“It was a world I was so new to. It allowed me to do so much research into that world and the law around women and how we were treated by the court and the justice system.
“But it’s weird. A part of me felt that I don’t know how much I fit in this world with these costumes and I don’t know how much it makes sense with my face and everything.
“A lot of other actresses are maybe more used to doing these types of shows so found it easier, but it was something I definitely had to research from scratch.”
And, even though her character’s particular skill – turning things into glass using her breath – meant Kiran missed out on the kind of fight scenes some of her co-stars got to enjoy, she loved bringing her feisty subject to life.
“It was great fun. I didn’t get to do any fighting, but there are some very cool action sequences in this,” she said.
“I did feel like I never had enough breath to make it look real and I just kept running out of breath and the director was like ‘Don’t hyperventilate by accident’.”
Sawar has racked up 32 film credits in the past six years. After her stunning debut in the BBC honour-killing drama Murdered By My Father, she enjoyed roles in major drama series including Black Mirror and Next Of Kin alongside her childhood heroine Archie Panjabi.
And last week she starred alongside Toby Jones and Anthony Boyle in another BBC feature, Danny Boy, about a lawyer investigating alleged war crimes.
Ahead of her 30th birthday later this month, Sawar’s work ethic
Kiran Sonia Sawar is joined in The Nevers by fellow Scot Amy Manson, and was delighted to work with the Aberdeenshire-born star for the first time.
Amy, best known for films such as Run and Beats, and TV shows including Being Human and Once Upon A Time, is super-powered villainess Maladie who terrorises Victorian London.
With an impressive ensemble cast, the
Amy Manson as Maladie shows no sign of waning. While she’d love to spend more time shooting back in Scotland, the London-based star says she just wants to keep chasing the best scripts.
She said: “That first job in 2015 still seems really recent. I’ve been very lucky, I think, just getting to be involved in lots of cool projects since then. I just really want to tell incredible stories on film and on television. I’d love to lead a show or a film and really get to delve into a character and be completely taken away on a proper journey. That would be the dream I think, proper storytelling.”
The Nevers launches on Sky Atlantic, tomorrow, 10.10pm
Judge Graham Norton
A retired nurse whose two pet dogs helped her to smile after her breast cancer diagnosis has launched a canine photo competition for Cancer Research UK, with a cast of celebrities to help as judges.
Fee Sharples, 65, of Hardingham near Norwich, said the idea for Britain’s Next Top Dog came to her in the “middle of the night”.
She was inspired by her pets, three-year old black Labrador Inca and 12-yearold Norfolk terrier Pickle.
Dog owners are invited to submit photos of their pets to find winners across six categories. Entries cost £10.
Judges, including Graham Norton, Stephen Fry and Jeremy Vine, will select winners in each category. A public vote will decide the overall Top Dog.