“We’re all dealing with whether or not we feel worthy of things like I go to the theater,” Doherty said. British class anxiety, which Doherty said she still experiences, is at the heart of “Chloe.”
Alice Seabright, the show’s creator and writer, spent part of her childhood in France and said she was interested in how, “In the UK, people are so attuned to where people come from and people’s backgrounds.” While Becky hides her real accent and background, her deception reveals the “world she enters as a world full of fiction — also full of lies,” said Seabright, 32.
With her propensity for self-loathing, Becky could be dismissed as unsympathetic. While casting the part, Seabright remembered something filmmaker Mike Nichols once said: Go with the person your character becomes towards the end of the movie. “Erin has a warm energy that’s the opposite of who Becky is when you meet her,” she said. “But it’s who she is underneath.” After casting Doherty in ‘The Crown’, Gold also chose Doherty for a role in the upcoming ‘Firebrand’.
Doherty is attracted to material with a serious side. “I really care why people’s stories need to be told,” she said. “When I go home, my dad always says, ‘Are you going to do something funny?'” She developed this quiet intensity at drama school, she said, where she was “very, very serious” about her studies. “I was the person who didn’t go out at all,” she said. “I was not in a relationship. I didn’t really have many friends. The friends I had were people I admired.”
“Chloe” Also Explores The Intensity Of Feminine friendship. Doherty never had many friends growing up, she said. But in a coffee shop overlooking the River Thames, she was a buzzing company with a mischievous sense of humour; it was hard to imagine her as a loner.
