More than 20 years after her breakout role in Bend It Like Beckham, Nagra is once again playing an outsider.
Chatting freely and laughing readily on a zoom call from London where she’s visiting family, Parminder Nagra is nothing like her title character in. In the English crime drama, her homicide detective’s most frequent expression is a frown: not a woman inclined to sociable small talk.Credit:Rachita Ray can be brusque and prickly, and she’s also doggedly dedicated to her work. Yet aside from her natural inclinations, it’s quickly established that she has good reason to be frowning.
While the way in which the investigation unfolds leaves viewers in little doubt about Ray’s qualities as a policewoman, she’s surrounded by people who openly, subtly or inadvertently undermine and unsettle her. Her working environment is, if not openly hostile, certainly unwelcoming. “Rachita doesn’t really have many people that she can trust, to the point where I don’t know if she can even trust herself because of how she’s feeling,” says Nagra of her embattled character.
“What I love about her is her reaction when someone asks her to do something and she just keeps going ‘Mmm-hmm, mmm-hmm, yes, understood. Yes, of course.’ And then she does whatever she feels is the right thing to do.”
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