Jill Nalder has had a distinguished and wide-ranging stage career, but I guess nothing could have prepared her for the amazing AIDS-era tv series It’s A Sin , where she plays opposite a fellow actor who is playing Jill’s younger self .And creator Russell T Davies adds another spin – Jill plays tv Jill’s mother in the Channel 4 series .
How was that I ask her – coming face to face with her younger self played by Lydia West ? “ It was very surreal – more so off the set in discussions rather than during the filming.
Once you are actually acting you are so concerned with the job and making the scene work, you forget the real-life story. “Her long connection with Russell started when they met at West Glamorgan Youth Theatre as teenagers.