#queen jenna

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Now I'm really digging into the past. Here is an interview Jenna Coleman (or, rather, Jenna-Louise Coleman as she was then known) gave on Loose Women (the UK equivalent of The View) that was posted to Youtube by a Loose Women fan channel 14 years ago. This was before Waterloo Road, before Room at the Top, before Doctor Who, before Captain America even. She was on the show because on Emmerdale they were about to launch the storyline in which Jasmine Thomas and Debbie Dingle were about to start a love affair, apparently the first LGBTQ2S+ storyline on that type of show, which was a cause celebre back in the late 2000s.

Jenna talks about her background and how she attempted 7 times to go to drama school but ended up taking the Emmerdale job instead. This being Loose Women they take a stab at asking about her love life and then she gets shocked by them talking about something called "popping" (the video doesn't elaborate though it might be related to farting). She talks about being ladylike. And acts very confused when she's asked about playing Rizzo in a production of Grease - which she was never in (the interviewer tries to cover the mistake but Jenna laughs it off and mentions how a researcher asked about her gran's plastic surgery. "Has she?"). She then goes on to discuss a harrowing scene she filmed for the show.

It's amazing to see how she's evolved over the years. Not just in her fashion sense (the jeans look was her thing for her first couple of years on Emmerdale), but just knowing this is Jenna at the dawn of her career. She looks and acts so differently now - we all change over time - but at the same time, this is Jenna.

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JENNA'S HAIR IS PINK AND IM SHOOK

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My Sylvari designed after Uryuu Minene, aka 9th from Mirai Nikki (Future Diary) plotting some shit in the throne room. 

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Victoria - 4 years on

Today (May 12) marks the fourth anniversary of the first UK broadcast of the 3rd season (and possibly series) finale of Jenna Coleman’s Victoria in 2019. It’s amazing it’s been so long!

Of course Jenna has gone on to other work. As the season was finishing up on ITV, she was co-starring in a West End revival of All My Sons. A few months later she’d be in Thailand shooting The Serpent. Then of course C19 arrived (hard to believe, less than a year after Victoria aired!), and after a pause Jenna ended up in The Sandman, Klokkenluider, and other projects.

Is Victoria finished? Wikipedia’s page has it as cancelled, citing a statement by ITV dated from 2021 that there were no plans for a 4th season. I recall one article saying further production was unlikely due to C19 (which would technically put Victoria in the same company as GLOW and a few other series ended due to the pandemic, even though most other shows continued production). Daisy Goodwin, the show’s producer and writer, posted on Instagram sometime in 2019 that she’d written scripts for Series 4. And, of course, Series 3 (spoiler alert) ended on a cliffhanger.

There’s still hope that the show might return, perhaps as a one-off special. Yes, Jenna and Tom Hughes are no longer a couple - but there’s certainly precedent for exes to continue working together in TV and film, so that’s not necessarily a barrier. There’s certainly no time limit involved - Jenna could return to the role later in life quite easily (much as Judi Dench has done); in real life, Albert didn’t die for real until a decade or so after the events covered in Series 3.

But the fact remains Jenna has moved on. Maybe not into something ongoing (even Sandman S2 might only entail another one-off story, she won’t in in every episode, and The War Rooms is looking to be the TV equivalent of vaporware), but being tied to a TV series might have prevented her from taking on things like Jackdaw or the Lemons play - or whatever she might be doing next. She probably has no burning need or desire to return to Victoria (maybe not to the same degree she appears to be disinterested in reprising Clara Oswald), other than maybe the fact the series leaves viewers hanging so it’ll always remain a bit of “unfinished business” in that regard.

Her co-stars have also moved on. Nell Hudson is now a novelist; Margaret Clunie has been doing mostly independent films; Tom has been in several TV series and movies over the last couple of years.

But what we did get were 3 seasons (plus a Christmas special) of surprisingly light-hearted romantic drama, Vicbourne, Vicbert (I forgot the ship name), Jenna in nearly every scene, plus some great co-stars including Margaret and Nell, Rufus Sewell, and of course fellow Doctor Who-franchise veterans Tommy Knight and Eve Myles and, lest we forget, Diana Rigg also popped in for a visit when she wasn’t poisoning Joffrey Baratheon! LOL! I miss the show but am thankful we got what we got!

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Sorry Matt Ryan, Jenna Coleman is the More Accurate Constantine

The character of Constantine has been played on the small screen by Matt Ryan and Jenna Coleman. But which interpretation was better?

Despite the headline, this article is also quite complimentary to Matt Ryan’s superb John Constantine. And the last paragraph makes the idea of a “No Way Home”-esque team-up with both seem even more appealing!

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Here’s the video for Jenna’s latest magazine interview/photo shoot!

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Jenna Coleman: My style is eclectic

'Victoria' actress Jenna Coleman says her style is eclectic and loves to mix "feminine with the masculine" fashion.

This is just Yahoo recycling the Elle interview from a few days ago, but it's got a nice picture of Jenna, so that's worthy of a repost, in my book.

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Jenna Coleman reblog mini-flood follows (courtesy mostly @oswincoleman). Sorry, not sorry! LOL