Creator Sally Wainwright & Actors Suranne Jones & Sophie Rundle on Gentleman Jack Season 2

We discussed season 2 of HBO’s Gentleman Jack with creator & showrunner Sally Wainwright, actor and executive producer Suranne Jones, and actor Sophie Rundle.

The three of them discussed both the challenges and joy of making the series. Wainwright spoke to how Anne Lister’s diaries give so much to continue the show from but how translating diaries to screen comes with challenging elements since they’re not written narratively.

Jones shared how the language Wainwright writes is so rich and how before filming scenes she would get into the moment by walking in the style of Anne Lister ahead of time round set.

In playing the other Anne of the series, Rundle shared how her character never set out to change the tide but in her own way absolutely does so and was already doing this even before meeting Lister.

Q&A on the series Gentleman Jack with creator & showrunner Sally Wainwright, actor and executive producer Suranne Jones, and actor Sophie Rundle. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company.

It's 1832 in West Yorkshire, England -- the cradle of the evolving Industrial Revolution -- where landowner Anne Lister is determined to save her faded ancestral home, Shibden Hall, even if it means bucking society's expectations. In addition to reopening the coal mines, a part of Lister's plan to help her family is to marry well. But the charismatic, single-minded Lister -- who dresses head-to-toe in black and charms her way into high society -- has no intention of marrying a man. "Gentleman Jack" examines Lister's relationships with her family, servants, tenants and industrial rivals, and would-be wife. The real-life Anne Lister's story was recorded in her diaries, and the most intimate details of her life are revealed for the series.