{"id":136768,"date":"2020-03-19T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/19\/tanya-moodie-motherland-mindfulness-and-my-medea-freakout\/"},"modified":"2020-03-19T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:54:11","slug":"tanya-moodie-motherland-mindfulness-and-my-medea-freakout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=136768","title":{"rendered":"Tanya Moodie: Motherland, mindfulness and my Medea freakout"},"content":{"rendered":"

As she wins a TV breakthrough award for playing alpha mum Meg in the BBC comedy, the actor talks about faith, focus and her passion for the stageAmid all the cancellations and chaos caused by the coronavirus this week, Tanya Moodie received one piece of news worth celebrating. She won the Royal Television Society breakthrough award for her performance in the BBC Two sitcom Motherland, in which she plays Meg, a dynamo of alpha-female energy who gives slummy-mummy Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin) some life-changing \u2013 and, for us, newly apt \u2013 advice on working from home.Moodie may be only just breaking through in television, but she\u2019s had a wide experience on stage. Indeed, when we met \u2013 before the RTA awards, and while Daddy, her now-postponed show at the Almeida, was still in rehearsals \u2013 Moodie relayed a recent conversation she\u2019d had with one of her fellow actors at the theatre. \u201cI just said to him today, very frankly, \u2018You need to develop a ritual to leave the character in the dressing room. Don\u2019t take them home.\u2019\u201d For Moodie, these rituals can be \u201csomething really banal, like, \u2018I take off my costume, I hang it on the hangers\u2019, but you do it with that mindfulness\u201d. This has been part of Moodie\u2019s practice ever since her Medea got a bit out of hand in the early 2000s. \u201cYeah man, that was weirrrrd! There was supernatural stuff happening all around. I\u2019d leave the theatre and Medea was following me everywhere! I\u2019d be in my flat and, like, the radio would turn on!\u201d Continue reading…
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As she wins a TV breakthrough award for playing alpha mum Meg in the BBC comedy, the actor talks about faith, focus and her passion for the stageAmid all the cancellations and chaos caused by the coronavirus this week, Tanya Moodie received one piece of news worth celebrating. She won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}