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Exclusive interview with David Lean Cinema’s Joanna Scanlan

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Key change: Joanna Scanlan as ‘Beth’, her latest starring role on screen in Sally Wainwright’s BBC drama Riot Women. Scanlan has lived in Sanderstead for eight years, and is now the influential patron of the David Lean Cinema

Sanderstead’s BAFTA award-winning actor Joanna Scanlan, fresh from her BBC drama success Riot Women, visited Inside Croydon’s virtual studio Under The Flyover this week to talk all things Croydon arts, including her significant part as patron of the David Lean Cinema.

With a credit list that includes After Love, as well as The Larkins, The Girl With a Pearl Earring and Getting On, Scanlan must be close to reaching “national treasure” status. She certainly deserves Croydon treasure status, since she moved to South Croydon eight years ago and more recently took on a figurehead role with the Clocktower’s cherished arthouse cinema, which has received a series of visits from movie stars and directors.

Scanlan is asked about her possibly being cast in a Town Hall version of The Thick Of It, based in a suburban London council. She said she would consider it, “if I can play the assistant to an especially corrupt councillor”, she said. Whatever could she mean?

As well as discussing the declining appeal of Croydon’s Fairfield Halls and the more robust state of the local arts scene in general – Scanlan was especially impressed by the recent Croydonites Festival – during the interview, she also explained how messy, and potentially deadly, some of her on-screen roles have been.

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