Cold Call’s Sally Lindsay reflects on the horrors of ‘becoming invisible’ as a middle-aged woman
COLD Call's Sally Lindsay has reflected on the horrors of "becoming invisible" as a middle-aged woman.
The 46-year-old actress plays June - a woman who has all her money taken by a cold call fraud scam - in the four-part Channel 5 drama.
The third episode airs tonight, and viewers have seen June start to fight back against the man she believes is behind the company making the cold calls while being employed as a carer for his elderly mother at his luxurious mansion.
Speaking to The Sun Online and other media, Sally opened up about how her character feels, saying: "Her as a carer she becomes invisible [in the house].
"A woman of a certain age literally becomes invisible in our society, especially someone who is a low earner, it's almost like they don't exist.
"And I think that's the thing that June has had enough of, and it was great fun to play."
June not only has to deal with losing all her money but the fact her mother takes her own life in the hope of helping her get the money back via her life insurance policy.
The character also wants to make sure her pregnant daughter and unborn grandchild will be OK, so the stakes are high as she tries to get to the bottom of the fraud.
Sally continued: "The wonderful thing about the three of them is they almost brought each other up, history has repeated herself.
"Her mum had her young, she had her daughter young and it's happening again and it's all been fine until this horrendous thing happened to them.
"And it's all for the love of her daughter and the love of her granddaughter.
"There was no other reason, she was like 'why have I got this equity in this house when I can give it to her?' it's a very selfless thing because it's her daughter.
"That's how the communities I know - I was brought up by women - and that's how it is, that's what you do for each other."
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Recalling her own childhood growing up in Stockport, saying: "My gran had a job, she was a seamstress and my granddad was lovely as well but he worked longer hours.
"So when my mum worked her three jobs, I used to go with her and my dad - god love him - was mainly in the pub, it was just about the girls bringing you up.
"We all sort of lived [close by] - it was a little terraced house and my auntie lived at the end and she'd go and pick me up from school and I think I drew on all that for Cold Call as it was very recognisable to me.
"Everything has obviously changed we hope, but that was my genuine experience so that's what we've tried to portray."
Cold Call continues tonight at 9pm on Channel 5.
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