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Nicola Walker is hardly an unknown. She has been a stage and television actor in the UK for 30 years and a star for more than 20. A performer of deep humanity who can take a character from cheeky humour to gimlet-eye resolution as quick as a weather change on the English coast, she has won an Olivier award \u2013 for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time<\/em> \u2013 and received multiple Bafta nominations for her work in television.<\/p>\n Her name recognition may not be what it should be outside the UK \u2013 though that may soon change with Alice and Steve<\/em>, which is streaming on Disney+.<\/p>\n A comedy of betrayal and vengeance created and written by Sophie Goodhart (Sex Education<\/em>, Rivals<\/em>), Alice and Steve<\/em> chronicles the epic fallout between two long-time besties after Alice (Walker) discovers that Steve (Jemaine Clement) has slept with, and wants to keep seeing, her 26-year-old daughter Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith).<\/p>\n Over the top does not begin to describe Alice\u2019s feelings of betrayal or her escalating attempts to break up the couple and punish Steve, which is precisely what drew Walker to the project.<\/p>\n \u201cI hadn\u2019t really read a script where a woman at my age was so recognisably full of love and rage and joy,\u201d she says. \u201cThose shades of anger that we experience as we get older? Women are not meant to show those levels.\u201d<\/p>\n Alice & Steve | Official Trailer | Disney+ UK<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Much of the pre-debut coverage has fixated on Walker\u2019s \u201cleap\u201d to comedy. Though her screen debut was as part of the quirky folk-singing duo in 1994\u2019s Four Weddings and a Funeral<\/em>, quickly followed by a role in Steven Moffat\u2019s 1997 school sitcom Chalk<\/em>, Walker\u2019s career leans heavily towards dramas, including various police investigations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Nicola Walker is hardly an unknown. She has been a stage and television actor in the UK for 30 years and a star for more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[430,3562,3598,25036,4965,698,17659,25037,234],"class_list":["post-62006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-actress","tag-alice","tag-mad","tag-nicola","tag-playing","tag-shut","tag-steve","tag-walker","tag-woman","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
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