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It's A Sin
It’s A Sin: Seyan Sarvan on real-life people who inspired performance as lawyer Lizbeth Farooqi
Warning: spoilers ahead for episode three of It’s A Sin.It’s A Sin actor Seyan Sarvan has spoken about the real-life people who inspired her performance as powerhouse lawyer Lizbeth Farooqi.In the third episode of Russell T Davies’ TV series on Channel 4, which centres on a group of young gay friends in London at the time of the Aids crisis in the 1980s, viewers are introduced to Lizbeth as she fights for the rights of Colin (Callum Scott Howells), who is being maltreated in hospital.Lizbeth – who is a Muslim, queer, female lawyer – takes a no-nonsense approach, refusing to stand down to those who are reluctant to listen to her voice of morality and reason.Although Lizbeth is fictional, while carrying out research for the role, Seyan, 26,