Jodie Whittaker has ventured to Netflix for her next TV series role. The former Doctor Who star is part of the cast of the new limited series Toxic Town, which hits Netflix later this month.
“The more you look into it, the more complicated it all becomes,” Thorne told Tudum about the story. “I’ve done legal dramas before, but this one … being taken through the actual truth of it and seeing the journey that they had to go on in order to prove this, I found very surprising and shocking. There’s just so much internalized blame that these women obviously had [to deal with, but they] collectively join together and work to actually empower not just themselves and their children, living or dead, but a whole community.”
Thorne added, “It was just so incredible to see and to see how it affected other parts of their life. It’s not just this simple hero’s journey of women banding together and fighting the man and getting this court victory. There’s nothing simple about it at all. You see where their power comes from, which is really just in the most basic level of humanity that they show for each other.”
Along with Whittaker, the series also stars Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education), Claudia Jessie (Bridgerton), Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty), Rory Kinnear (The Diplomat), Stephen McMillan (Boiling Point), Lauren Lyle (Outlander), Joe Dempsie (Game of Thrones), Michael Socha (This Is England), and Karla Crome (Carnival Row).
Jodie Whittaker Has Never “Done Anything Like” Her Role in Toxic Town
“[Robert Carlyle] just transformed himself,” Thorne also said of the cast. “And Jodie [Whittaker, as one of the mothers at the center of the case] similarly … I’ve never seen her do anything like this, sort of finding that chaos and that truth and that bravery that Susan has got. And then Aimee Lou [Wood] — that quietness and that tragedy. Each of them just brought something new that I’d never seen them do before. And when you’re with a cast that’s doing that consistently, it’s so exciting to watch and it’s so beautiful.”
