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So much fun getting gorgeous @sophiesophierundle ready for the screening of The Diplomat in London last night

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These GJ Season 2 Bloopers are the best 😆😆

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The costumes are gorgeous 👒🎩🥰

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Family time in Barcelona and what a gorgeous little family they are 🥰

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“We are the only people in the whole world on Earth who want us to be together. It won’t be easy, it’ll never be easy, but we’re both still here, aren’t we.”

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Happy Pride Month ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎

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Drunk Ann is everything 🤣🥰👒

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What Ann's correspondence with Mrs Lowton looked like... probably 😁

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Bottle this laugh for everyone 🥰👒

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STOP HURTING HER

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Protect her at all costs 👒🥰

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This. This Angel must be protected at all costs. 🕊🥰😇🎩

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This ⬆️

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Look, I hate angst for my wives but I cannot wait for Ann Walker to go off on Anne Lister. It's not even about cheating or Mariana at this point, it's about being sincere to your spouse which Anne just hasn't been in season 2. Ann asked (not once) about Anne's past and Lister lied. Ann asked about Mariana and what happened at Lawton Hall, Anne again lied and avoided the question

Now, I know why Anne keeps avoiding those subjects, she's afraid she is going to lose her wife, she doesn't care what others think of her anymore but she cares what Ann thinks and respects her opinion. What she doesn't understand is that this behavior is going to cause the exact opposite of that she wanted. By keeping things from Ann is truly going to look like she's with her only for Ann's money and I honestly don't even blame Ann's family for thinking that.

I think Anne wanted to get married for so long but she didn't even know what marriage entails. Ann cannot be her wife only behind closed doors, she needs to share every part of herself with her. With that visit to Mariana she emotionally closed off again, but she needs to remember that marriage is about more than love and affection and that she's being insincere with the only woman who was brave enough to marry her and move in with her. Ann shared all of herself with Anne, now Anne needs to trust her, trust that Ann is not going to leave her because of her past.

So yeah, I say go off Ann.

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Ann and Anne hat chat 👒🎩

Love Love Love this 🥰

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Sophie and Suranne talking about their friendship 🥰👒🎩 Just know they had some good fun on set

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Sophie, in Season 1, Ann Walker was so fearful of what her family thought of her and she was so eager to please. Her self-acceptance and her steadfast decision to be with Anne and make that full commitment is pretty remarkable. How do you think Ann would respond to the statement that she’s incredibly brave and pretty radical?

SOPHIE RUNDLE: Oh, I love that you use the word “radical” for her because she doesn’t get words like that used for her and you’re so right. I think she’d be horrified that people know what was actually going on, but I’d like to think that maybe on some level she’d be proud that people saw her, acknowledged her, and supported her. I think that’s who she was deep down inside of her, this brave person, just a victim of the life she led up to that point.

I hope she would be proud that we’ve dug her out of history and we’ve celebrated her now. This was a story of two women who married each other and yet we still have a tendency to focus on Anne Lister. There’s this amazing plaque of where they got married, but it still focuses on Anne Lister and still sidelines Ann Walker as “the wife.” There were two women in this marriage and she was brave enough to commit herself to a woman at a time when it was unheard of. So yeah, the little strain of steel and bravery inside of her is there; I hope she would be pleased that we see it and celebrate it.

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DECIDER: Sophie, the first few episodes of Season 2 really let us dive deep into Ann Walker’s mental health issues, or at least other people’s perception of those issues. I’d love to know your perspective of what she was going through. How much of that struggle was legitimate and how much was a way for people to belittle or control her?

SOPHIE RUNDLE: You know, it’s hard because we have the language and cultural understanding now of mental health. They didn’t have that then, so it’s hard to retrospectively apply that to what she was going through then. I did try to figure out what kind of thing she was going through, what I can understand in contemporary language, and put that into her. Like you say, how much of that is something she’s dealing with, and how much was her family trying to gaslight her?

It’s a very toxic merging of both of those factors, I think. I think that she’s someone that wouldn’t be as ill as she was then if she lived now. I think she just needed help and that’s certainly what happens in Season 1 and throughout her life. Anne Lister offers her a lifeline. She just needs someone to listen to her. She’s in there and she just needs help getting out. I just tried to disentangle what was happening to her, what she was reacting to, why she just needed someone to share the load. That’s the heartbreaking thing. Anne Lister helped her with that. If she’d lived now, she would have been a much freer person.

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The Diplomat follows Laura Simmonds and her Barcelona Consul colleague and friend Alba Ortiz as they fight to protect British nationals who find themselves in trouble in the Catalan city. Mixing the roles of lawyer, counsellor and cop, Laura and Alba’s diplomatic skills are stretched to the limit by the stream of cases that walk through the Consul’s doors.

The series opens on the unexplained death of a young British barman working around Barcelona’s notorious marina. While Laura supports the boy’s angry father, neither the Spanish police nor the foreign office are keen to pursue a murder enquiry. As Laura and Alba uncover the events surrounding the barman’s death, they discover links not only to organised crime, but also to the British security services. Laura’s quest for justice places her in real jeopardy, as she threatens to expose secrets that the British and Spanish will go to any lengths to keep hidden.