- Georgiana Lambe is from Antigua.
Her father is a plantation owner and her mother was a slave and her parents have passed away by the time we meet her and she is being watched over by Sidney Parker, and he brings her to England.
When we meet her, she's feeling really isolated and sad and traumatized and she's a young woman who's trying to piece together who she is and doing that in a place where there's no one that looks like her and there's no one that understands her perspective her experience.
- I thought it might remind you of home, Ms Lambe.
Antigua was it not?
Or some such place.
- The pineapple scene.
This is a moment where all that trauma and all the isolation is just there and it's in front of her and she can't walk away from it and instead of crumbling, in the face of it, she's standing in her power.
- An heiress with 100 thousand must be in want of a husband, I think.
- I don't care to be any man's property, Lady Denham.
- For you to speak back at anyone like that as a woman is just not okay, but she does it anyway.
I think it's always really hard being the only person of color on a set.
I've had experiences in the past that weren't so great.
So it was really nice to have certain people I could go to who felt like allies, who kind of already had an understanding and were there for me and if there were things that in the script, that I felt, didn't fit, for this character, I was totally listened to, which I completely appreciated.
So it was a challenge but at the same time a learning opportunity for all of us.
- Good day Ms Lambe.
- I think there's a lot of Ms Lambe in me.
I have a really hard time not telling it like it is, if I'm being honest.
- Well tell me, how do you like Sanditon?
- God's sake, is that the best you can do?
- I get a certain little joy out of shaking things up a bit and I think Ms Lambe definitely does.
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