{"id":68889,"date":"2023-11-25T12:06:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T12:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/?p=68889"},"modified":"2023-11-25T12:06:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T12:06:15","slug":"fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenella Woolgar: I was told to get a nose job"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Fenella Woolgar on how she&#8217;s defied &#8216;fascist&#8217; casting directors with major roles from Midwife to The Buccaneers: I was told to get a nose job<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>W<\/span><span>oolgar is also starring on the stage in a new farce called Mates In Chelsea<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0\u00a0A reckoning of sorts, but is the Beeb letting itself off for aiding a monster? CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Steve Coogan&#8217;s Jimmy Savile drama<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Call The Midwife favourites are often given either a lingering death or a slow-burning romance that ends with them skipping off into the sunset. Not so for Fenella Woolgar\u2019s Sister Hilda, who simply vanished.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One minute she was there doling out gentle advice and providing some light relief, the next she was gone, mysteriously dispatched to&#8230; Chichester.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I was sad not to get a dramatic goodbye but it does mean there\u2019s an opening to go back if I want to,\u2019 laughs Fenella, who\u2019s every bit as jolly as the nun she played for four years. \u2018And while I really miss the cast members and crew, I think we actors like to do lots of different things.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s since had fun getting her teeth into meatier roles, including a scene-stealing portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Reckoning, the recent BBC drama about Jimmy Savile. She\u2019d had some experience playing the Iron Lady before, having starred in West End show Handbagged a decade ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It was interesting to play a different side of her in The Reckoning, where you see her off-duty with someone she thinks of as a friend,\u2019 says Fenella, 54, of the scenes between Mrs T and Savile. \u2018The work I\u2019d done on her before all came in handy. Her accent came back almost straight away.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/24\/17\/78167575-12775325-Fenella_played_Sister_Hilda_in_Call_The_Midwife_for_four_years_-m-24_1700845997324.jpg\" height=\"981\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Fenella played Sister Hilda in Call The Midwife for four years<\/p>\n<p>Fans can see another side to Fenella in new Apple TV+ costume drama The Buccaneers, an adaptation of the unfinished Edith Wharton novel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She plays stony-faced Lady Brightlingsea, who is less than impressed when a bunch of rich, louche American girls come over here in 1870 to marry our lords.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s a joy of a show, apart from the corset,\u2019 she says. \u2018This era was the worst for pulling in the waist to a silly degree, and my corset was very tight. You can only eat tiny amounts and you can\u2019t lie down during a break. It makes you realise that women in those days were dressed to never be able to run away.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also currently starring on the stage in a new farce called Mates In Chelsea at London\u2019s Royal Court Theatre, in which she plays another upper-class \u2018harridan\u2019 who\u2019s struggling to keep her son in line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s a farce but there\u2019s this undercurrent of social comedy too,\u2019 she says. \u2018There\u2019s an element that investigates where power lies in this country. But more than anything else it\u2019s just really funny.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Not bad for an actress who was once told she needed to get a nose job if she wanted to succeed. She\u2019d finished at Durham University and was pondering a life on the stage, having fallen in love with acting at school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I was told by a director before he\u2019d even seen me act, \u201cYou will never get any work unless you have a nose job\u201d,\u2019 she reveals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It was a shocking thing to say to a young woman, but I was determined it wouldn\u2019t stop me. I was lucky I wasn\u2019t fresh out of school so I was a bit more mature.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I do sometimes wonder whether it\u2019s affected my casting \u2013 it can be frustrating. The profession is so strange, it puts a particular type of look front and centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/24\/17\/78168183-12775325-Woolgar_played_Margaret_Thatcher_in_The_Reckoning_above_She_d_ha-m-25_1700846014867.jpg\" height=\"526\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Woolgar played Margaret Thatcher in The Reckoning (above). She\u2019d had some experience playing the Iron Lady before, having starred in West End show Handbagged a decade ago<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We don\u2019t tend to have a great variety of face shapes, and the end result is terrible fascism. The idea that we must all look exactly the same. In real life people with a variety of faces fall in love, so I don\u2019t know why only a certain look is allowed on screen.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She adds that there is a benefit to being a \u2018character actress\u2019 though, because she gets to play all sorts of roles, from Midsomer Murders and Dalgliesh to the 2003 film Bright Young Things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A mother of three teenagers with her doctor husband, she also has a successful second career as an artist and won Celebrity Portrait Artist of the Year in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019ll never play badminton for Britain though. \u2018I had to learn to play for Mates In Chelsea and I\u2019m still not very good,\u2019 she admits. \u2018But how I love the challenge of doing something new.\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mates In Chelsea is on at the Royal Court Theatre until 16 December.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12775325\/Fenella-Woolgar-shes-defied-fascist-casting-directors-major-roles-Midwife-Buccaneers-told-nose-job.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fenella Woolgar on how she&#8217;s defied &#8216;fascist&#8217; casting directors with major roles from Midwife to The Buccaneers: I was told to get a nose job Woolgar is also starring on the stage in a new farce called Mates In Chelsea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fenella Woolgar: I was told to get a nose job - Newcelebworld.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fenella Woolgar: I was told to get a nose job - Newcelebworld.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fenella Woolgar on how she&#8217;s defied &#8216;fascist&#8217; casting directors with major roles from Midwife to The Buccaneers: I was told to get a nose job Woolgar is also starring on the stage in a new farce called Mates In Chelsea...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Newcelebworld.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-25T12:06:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"mediabest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Fenella-Woolgar-I-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"mediabest\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job\/\",\"name\":\"Fenella Woolgar: I was told to get a nose job - Newcelebworld.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-25T12:06:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-25T12:06:15+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Lifestyle\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/category\/lifestyle\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Fenella Woolgar: I was told to get a nose job\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/\",\"name\":\"Newcelebworld.com\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609\",\"name\":\"mediabest\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d7cef2e0d8d634cb49d54f7c48b549a1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d7cef2e0d8d634cb49d54f7c48b549a1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"mediabest\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Fenella Woolgar: I was told to get a nose job - Newcelebworld.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Fenella Woolgar: I was told to get a nose job - Newcelebworld.com","og_description":"Fenella Woolgar on how she&#8217;s defied &#8216;fascist&#8217; casting directors with major roles from Midwife to The Buccaneers: I was told to get a nose job Woolgar is also starring on the stage in a new farce called Mates In Chelsea...","og_url":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job\/","og_site_name":"Newcelebworld.com","article_published_time":"2023-11-25T12:06:15+00:00","author":"mediabest","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_image":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Fenella-Woolgar-I-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"mediabest","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job\/","url":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job\/","name":"Fenella Woolgar: I was told to get a nose job - Newcelebworld.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-11-25T12:06:15+00:00","dateModified":"2023-11-25T12:06:15+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/fenella-woolgar-i-was-told-to-get-a-nose-job\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lifestyle","item":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/category\/lifestyle\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Fenella Woolgar: I was told to get a nose job"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/","name":"Newcelebworld.com","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609","name":"mediabest","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d7cef2e0d8d634cb49d54f7c48b549a1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d7cef2e0d8d634cb49d54f7c48b549a1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"mediabest"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}