From Lady Dedlock to Lady Deadshot
Posted at 7:48 AM (PST) on Friday, November 11, 2005

Daily Mail (London)
November 11, 2005

FROM LADY DEDLOCK TO LADY DEADSHOT

Three times a week, viewers have been following the every move of Gillian Anderson's sultry and aloof Lady Dedlock in the BBC's mustwatch TV adaptation of Bleak House.

For her next role, she has chosen something completely different -- and quite right, too. Gillian started shooting the movie Straightheads yesterday. It's a thriller and it explores the moral issues surrounding violent revenge.

In the film, Ms Anderson plays a businesswoman who is sexually assaulted while visiting her family in Shropshire.

No one messes with this lady, so she grabs her father's old sniper rifle and, not to put too fine a point on it, lets the rapist feel the full impact of her rage.

Director Dan Reed has cast clever Danny Dyer as Ms Anderson's beau and Anthony Calf as the guy who ends up walking in a most peculiar way, by the time Ms Anderson has finished with him.

Bleak House continues for several more weeks. I've seen a few episodes in advance and there are some terrific moments coming involving Lady Dedlock in scenes with Esther and Tulkinghorn, played superbly by Anna Maxwell Martin and Charles Dance.