The Motherland spin-off, Amandaland, sees Amanda's marriage and life fall apart, leading to a chance encounter with her hapless sidekick Anne. While Anne has blossomed into her own life, she quickly falls back under Amanda's spell. Philippa Dunne, who plays Anne, discusses the character's enduring appeal and the new challenges of parenting teenagers.
detonated onto our screens, a lid was lifted on the painful, cringe-inducing sides of motherhood. Not only that – the bizarre friendships that emerge from the shared experience of having children.
This lasts all of two-minutes before she’s back under Amanda’s spell and back into the role of subjugated minion. She ‘secretly loves being sucked into Amanda's orbit’. She definitely ‘gets something out of the friendship’, says Philippa. ‘It's just that desperation to be wanted and to be liked, to fit in and be seen as valuable. That's why she's forever bending over backwards for Amanda.
Right from that first episode, ‘the stress, to the noise, the anxiety, the pressure, the chaos, the screaming, the roaring, the people that you have to deal with just because your children are in the same school – it's terribly relatable.’
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