Actress Natasha Little: From scheming vixen to wronged woman. Best known for her bad- girl roles in This Life and Vanity Fair, Natasha is about to play a deceived wife in the new series of Mistresses. In a revealing interview, she talks about learning to expose her vulnerable side and the health problems that nearly scuppered her chance to have a family. By. Maureen Paton for Mail. Online. Updated. 2. GMT, 7 February 2.
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It is no exaggeration to say that Natasha Little once enjoyed the cult status of being British television’s most hated blonde. Not as herself, of course, but as Rachel, the beautiful, treacherous lawyer with the soft, wheedling, little- girl voice and the aura of sweet poison in the 9.
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This Life. We’ve all had run- ins with Rachels in our lives (though in my case she’s called Jane – don’t deny it, you know who you are). And Natasha gave such a brilliant portrayal of her passive- aggressive tactics that the delicious moment when Rachel finally got her comeuppance, by way of a punch on the jaw from fellow solicitor Milly in the final series in 1. TV scene ever in a Channel 4 poll.
All of which made Natasha not just an overnight name, but an object of fascination. One critic called her a classic Hitchcock blonde, with hidden fires under that cool exterior, while another praised the enigmatic quality that has become her stock in trade. With such a build- up, I’m expecting some kind of bitch- goddess to walk into the photo shoot, so it’s quite disarming when Natasha turns up tousle- haired and breathless in trainers like any other busy mother of a lively four- year- old and meekly asks if she can keep her coat on for a while as she sits by the radiator . Sorry, it looks very rude.’. Megan is married to Jack (Steven Brand), who comes back into the life of his old flame Katy (Sarah Parish). But as we shall see, there are more important things in Natasha’s life than wasting time on a Rachel- style catfight over a role.
This Life, that fight: Natasha (right) gets to grips with Amita Dhiri in the final explosive scene. For someone whose latest leading men in two forthcoming big- screen films are Jared Leto in Mr Nobody and Clive Owen in The Boys Are Back in Town (of which more later), she seems surprisingly self- deprecating. This Life definitely opened doors, but it was a long time ago now. And it makes me feel quite old . I based Rachel on an amalgam of several people, and she herself didn’t think she was terrible – she thought she was well- intentioned.’. I couldn’t imagine being in a relationship where there wasn’t trust. If you can’t trust someone, your behaviour is warped by that.
You can’t be yourself at all’In Mistresses, she’s relishing playing the wronged party. It’s impossible to judge other people’s relationships – you never know the whole story, you never get the full picture. Fortunately, I’ve never been in that situation.’Natasha herself has been happily married since 2. Bohdan Poraj (short for Poraj- Pstrokonski, which is her mouthful of a married name). Always known as Bo, he’s the British- born son of Polish parents and his first name Bohdan means .
She and Bo, who live in East London, had already met a couple of times in different productions at the National Theatre in the late 1. Bo in a production of Hamlet at the Bristol Old Vic in 1. As Natasha shyly puts it, . If you can’t trust someone, your behaviour is warped by that. You can’t be yourself at all.
You have to keep in contact with each other, and as actors Bo and I are so fortunate that we can choose not to take a job in order to take turns with the childcare. For us it’s been a big thing since our son Gabriel was born four years ago. He’s going to have the biggest coat- peg sign at school – he’s named after his granddads as well, so his full name is Gabriel Matthew Frederick Herbert Poraj- Pstrokonski.’It’s clear that Natasha’s life has been completely transformed by his birth, not least because for years she thought she wouldn’t be able to have children. I had been diagnosed years ago with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can affect your fertility – but luckily in my case it didn’t. When I conceived, we weren’t even trying for a child, though obviously we were having sex,’ she says, laughing as she adds, . When he was little, it took a long time for me to get back to work; in fact, I took two years off.
I know it sounds a bit feeble,’ she adds hastily, . I really feel for women in that situation – it’s a big choice. I love my work and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn’t the centre of my life’'As an actor I’m in such a privileged position, because my work is job by job. If something doesn’t fit in with family life, there’s more flexibility.
Bo is amazingly supportive, and if a job comes up in another part of the world for me, he readily says, “Well, Gabriel and I will come with you.” Similarly, if he works away from home, I’m quite happy to go and hang out with Gabriel on Bo’s set.’She and Bo are both only children, which has made their son all the more precious to both sets of grandparents. Her parents divorced when she was 1. East London. I love my work and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn’t the centre of my life.’However, she and Bo, it seems, are the centre of Gabriel’s life. But dictator is the job I’ve got him down for at the moment.’Natasha hasn’t ruled out more children. And becoming a mother has made me more aware of working with children and using the abilities you’ve got in a different way,’ she says. As an only child, she would spend hours amusing herself by creating her own world with stories. And having just been awarded an arts council grant to write and direct a short film called Tin Man this May, with professional actors, she hopes to go on to work with children and young people on other storytelling projects.
You have to be realistic. There’s no point torturing yourself about jobs you do or don’t get’So with these other strings to her bow, no wonder she doesn’t obsess about ageing as many actresses do. I think about Botox and surgery, but don’t believe I would ever do anything about it. I often have fantasies about it, though, standing in front of the mirror and stretching my forehead a lot,’ she admits. In this business there’s always someone bigger and better. You have to be realistic. There’s no point torturing yourself about jobs you do or don’t get, because so many factors come into play that are out of your control.’However, Natasha is continuing to get a crack at the big screen.
She took Gabriel with her to Brussels and Canada to make the ambitious time- travel fantasy Mr Nobody, with Rhys Ifans playing her husband and Jared Leto her son. And in The Boys Are Back in Town, she plays the ex- wife of Clive Owen’s sports journalist in a story of bereavement and single fatherhood that is being shot this spring by Shine director Scott Hicks. As for This Life, Natasha still thinks fondly of her breakthrough role and likes to imagine that control- freak Rachel would have ended up, fittingly enough, as a judge. And she’s proud of how she handled that final scene. Not bad for someone who wasn’t allowed to take the fight exam at drama school. I was rotten at fighting, so I wasn’t considered safe to take it!’ Mistresses begins on BBC1 on 1.