The Salisbury Poisonings’ Anne-Marie Duff praises ‘superhero’ health chief ‘taking bullets’ on front line of attack – The Sun

ANNE-Marie Duff praised the health chief she plays in the The Salisbury Poisonings as a "superhero".

The actress, 49, plays Tracy Daszkiewicz the director of public health at Wiltshire council, who took charge after the deadly nerve agent novichok was spread through Salisbury via a perfume bottle in 2018.

Russian spies were believed to have been to be deployed Salisbury to assassinate former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia using the deadly nerve agent.

Anne-Marie boasted about critical Tracy's role was throughout the incident.

She told The Times: "I think this is a story about those people: the people who pick up after us, the people who take our rubbish away and who stack shelves and get paid sometimes less than the minimum wage, unfortunately.

"They are our superheroes, and this drama is about a few of those superheroes."

Tracy was responsible for tracking down the invisible chemical and also make the brave decision to order a lockdown of the city.

She also called for an elaborate tracing and testing program, distributed PPE for essential staff, all while trying to keep the public calm.

"This was something so extraordinary, and to be surrounded by a group of strangers — predominantly male strangers — it was very frightening for her. Yet Tracy is somebody who takes responsibility, and that’s the story I was trying to tell," Anne-Marrie explained.

The actress explained Tracy needed to have a "titanium" self-belief in order to deal with this unlikely, but dangerous event.

Skripal, an ex-KGB spy and his daughter Yulia, 34, collapsed while out in Salisbury on Sunday, March 4, 2018.

They were found slumped on a bench in a "catatonic state" and it was revealed that the pair had been victims of a nerve agent attack, which was later confirmed as being novichok.

After further investigation, it was discovered that the nerve agent had been administered to their home's door handle.

Dawn Sturgess died after she and her boyfriend Charlie Rowley were exposed to the same Novichok nerve agent, when he found some discarded perfume bottles in the town of Amesbury, that he gave to Dawn as a gift.

The two Russians accused of carrying out the attack, were seen visiting Salisbury at the time gave the now infamous interview claiming they had been in the area to visit the famous "123-metre spire".

The star-studded BBC1 drama The Salisbury Poisonings reveals just how close the nerve agent came to killing thousands more — and the untold stories of the everyday heroes in the local emergency response who helped contain it.

The hour-long episodes will be shown across three consecutive nights on June 14, 15 and 16.

All three episodes will also be available to watch on BBC iPlayer after they have been shown on TV.

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