The Sky six-part thriller about a security guard handcuffed to a psychotic convict to get him to court on time has become a TV sensation with its high-octane drama, explosions and fight scenes.
Scotland’s newest action heroine Izuka Hoyle has told of the moment she landed the part in hit show Prisoner The Sky six-part thriller about a security guard handcuffed to a psychotic convict to get him to court on time has become a TV sensation with its high-octane drama, explosions and fight scenes.
The Sky six-part thriller about a security guard handcuffed to a psychotic convict to get him to court on time has become a TV sensation with its high-octane drama, explosions and fight scenes. The Edinburgh-born actress has instantly joined the ranks of fellow Scots Sean Connery, Gerard Butler and Karen Gillan as an action star. She said: “When I found out I got the job it was via my agent.
He called me from the toilets mid-Janet Jackson concert and I was at the other end of the call giving blood. ”It must have been a sign because the series, which also stars Tahar Rahim, Eddie Marsan and Braveheart star Catherine McCormack, is a survival chase with some of the best action scenes seen on British TV.
, born Chantelle Hoyle to a Scottish dad and Nigerian-born mum, plays Amber Todd, a prison transport officer who is responsible for taking a contract killer Tibor Stone to court to testify against his old crime syndicate. When the van is ambushed, Amber cuffs herself to Stone to make sure he doesn’t escape as the duo team up to get him to court as the syndicate does all it can to stop them including targeting her baby daughter.
Izuka prepared for her biggest role by getting fit and watching maternity series, One Born Every Minute. As she’s not a mother herself Izuka revealed: “I watched a lot of One Born Every Minute. Oh my God now I can’t stop. I go to bed just weeping.
It’s just blown my mind.
“I don’t have any young siblings, nieces or nephews so it was a new world. I spoke to every mother I knew. When a lot of women be- come mothers, there’s this primal creature that’s born within them, to protect and provide for their child. It’s so moving.
”Amber’s prisoner“Action was new for me so I wasn’t sure how it was going to work, how many takes of action sequences there’d be or use of stunt doubles.
“I hadn’t done any stunts before but ended up doing quite a lot of them. Apart from fire and explosions. They wouldn’t let me do those. ”Izuka likes her sport so as well as learning stunts, while handcuffed, she also had a movement coach to make her character look more clumsy.
She said: “We’re being chased and I’m constantly being dragged about and thrown around. I needed to make sure I had stamina for that.
“What quickly became apparent was just how many different vers-ions of handcuffs we were going to need for which scenes. “There were rubber ones, plastic ones, real ones, real ones with quick release and real ones with a lock. “We took into consideration which ones give you more room to move and pull and which one hurt more. I hadn’t thought about the safety element of handcuffs.
” There are also a lot of action sequences in the series including the tunnel ambush of the prison van which is blown upside down. While the Scot loved doing the stunts she admitted, while she’d love to do more action films or TV, she’d be happy never to see a harness again. She laughed: “They are so uncomfortable.
Whether I’m hanging upside down in a van or hanging off the edge of Cardiff Bay or being thrown about with Tahar it hurts, man. It’s just unbelievably uncomfortable. ” Born in Edinburgh before moving to Dundee for her father’s work as a nurse and then back to the capital, Izuka, who then went by her birth name Chantelle went to Royal High School.
She did love music and they collided when she played Motormouth Maybelle in its 2010 production of Hairspray. School wasn’t for her and aged 16 she left to study drama at the MGA Academy in Livingston for two years before, aged 18, getting a scholarship to the Arts Education School in London.
”After leaving drama school in 2017, she immediately found success, originating the role of Catherine Parr in musical Six about Henry VIII’s wives and she has never looked back. She made her big screen debut as Mary Seton in 2018’s Mary Queen of Scots opposite Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie and played French chef Camille in Boiling Point with Stephen Graham for which she won her Scottish Bafta. Izuka admits her homeland is never very far away from her thoughts.
She said: “I took the Scottish flag that hangs up in the blue shed.
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