The Sex Education star takes on a new role alongside Inside No 9's David Morrissey for BBC Three drama Daddy Issues
The Sex Education star will play pregnant, 24-year-old Gemma in the upcoming series Daddy Issues, which comes to BBC Three this month. Sherwood’s David Morrissey stars as her dad, Malcom - a hapless man-child who, recently divorced from Gemma’s mother, is living in a grubby shared flat for divorced men and is unable to perform basic life tasks.
Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now On filming in her hometown, Wood said: "I didn’t think it was important to me until I got there and started filming it, I didn’t think it was going to move me as much as it did. But when I was in Stockport I was like: ‘This is really lovely’ – it brought back really fond memories of growing up there.
Speaking about her new role in Daddy Issues, Wood revealed: "At the beginning of the series Gemma and Malcolm feel like strangers to one another. Even though they are father and daughter, they don’t really know each other that well, but she’s pregnant and needs someone, and he’s going through a divorce, so they need each other.
On what drew her into Daddy Issues, Wood said she 'genuinely laughed her head off' as the scripts. "It just kept getting better and better. I found out David Morrissey would be playing Malcolm, and I was like: ‘I have to do it, I have to play David Morrissey’s daughter’, because I’ve loved him since I was a kid in everything he’s done," she added.
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