Kate Mara reveals she warned her parents about latest role as a high school teacher who grooms pupil and admits: ‘Some people are definitely going to feel uncomfortable watching!’
Ten-part BBC2 series A Teacher starts on BBC2 at 10pm on Sunday night.
And the star of the show, Kate Mara, 37, has revealed that she warned her parents about her role as a high school teacher who grooms and 18-year old pupil in her English class.
The actress, who plays Claire Wilson, confessed she told her parents, Kathleen and Timothy, they would need to ‘fast-forward through some things’ and admitted that ‘some people are definitely going to feel uncomfortable watching!’
Warning! Kate Mara, 37, has revealed that she warned her parents about her role in A Teacher as a high school teacher who grooms and 18-year old pupil in her English class
Kate’s character, Claire, embarks on an illicit affair with her pupil, Eric – played by Jurassic World star Nick Robinson 25 – demonstrating a serious abuse of power that will scar their lives forever and tear their futures apart.
Speaking about her family’s reaction to her role in A Teacher, she told The Sun: ‘My parents want to be supportive and watch. I just told them they’re going to have to fast-forward through some things. That eliminates a lot of the show.
‘When I called them to ask them what they thought, they said things like, “Yeah, we only had to fast-forward four times tonight”. That leaves probably ten minutes of the episode.’
Kate said: ‘Some people are definitely going to feel uncomfortable watching. It wasn’t something that we made thinking it would be a super-easy watch. Comfortable is not the word we were going for.’
Uncomfortable watch: The actress, who plays Claire Wilson, confessed she told her parents, Kathleen and Timothy, they would need to ‘fast-forward through some things’
Grooming: Kate’s character, Claire, embarks on an illicit affair with her pupil, Eric – played by Jurassic World star Nick Robinson 25 – demonstrating a serious abuse of power
A Teacher is based on a 2013 film of the same name, which follows Claire, who has no friends at work and feels suffocated in her marriage to musician Matt, played Ashley Zukerman, 37.
Kate is best known for playing Zoe Barnes in Netflix’s House Of Cards, but has also starred in Brokeback Mountain and TV series American Horror Story: Murder House.
She is married to Billy Elliot star Jamie Bell, 34, and the couple welcomed their first child together 18 months ago, a daughter, but have not publicly revealed her name.
Celebrity couple: Mara is married to British actor Jamie Bell, with whom she shares a daughter, born in May 2019. They’re pictured in July 2019
The couple met while making the 2015 superhero reboot Fantastic Four and announced their engagement two years later. They announced their marriage in July 2017.
Jamie was previously married to the actress Evan rachel Wood with whom he shares a seven-year-old son.
Kate is just one of the stars in her family, with her younger sister being Rooney Mara, 35, whose husband is Joaquin Phoenix, 46.
A Teacher starts tonight on BBC2 at 10pm.
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