She stars tonight in the second series of Jimmy McGovern’s new three-part series Time.
The Doctor Who star, 41, plays single mother-of-three Orla, who is imprisoned for six months after fiddling her electricity bill during the cost-of-living crisis so she can fend for her children.
Her life collapses when her children are taken into care. On coping with tough roles, Jodie said: “Do you know what? I am an absolute nightmare to live with. I find it very hard.
“I need a lot of ‘monologuing’ at the end of most days to get everything I’m feeling out – and some poor person has to listen to that. You go through a scene when you are crying your eyes out or absolutely devastated.
“Physically we go through that as actors. You have to keep a certain energy for that. I have always underestimated how much it can bleed into real life.”
She said she hopes politicians will watch the series and see how our prison system can adversely affect women.
She said: “It is such a broken system. If money is always an issue and every government is always frustrated about that, why have this thing in place that puts people in prison who are not a risk to society?”
● Time, BBC1, tonight, 9pm
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