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Anna Friel: ‘I go to every location with a bag full of lightbulbs. Lighting really affects how one thinks’

The Guardian UK Saturday 18 July 2026, 20:00 UTC By Sian Cain 1 min read
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The British actor on no-nonsense women, learning her lines in the bath and encountering a ‘nation of beautiful people’ while filming a new medical drama in AustraliaYou’re starring in Australian medical drama The F Ward. What was the best medical fact you learned on set?Some of the operations I studied and watched in order to emulate them, I couldn’t believe that the patient was alive. Half of their body was outside of them; that should be inside!

The British actor on no-nonsense women, learning her lines in the bath and encountering a ‘nation of beautiful people’ while filming a new medical drama in Australia

You’re starring in Australian medical drama The F Ward. What was the best medical fact you learned on set?

Some of the operations I studied and watched in order to emulate them, I couldn’t believe that the patient was alive. Half of their body was outside of them; that should be inside!

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