PUBLISHED: 20:22, Mon, Jun 24, 2019 | UPDATED: 20:30, Mon, Jun 24, 2019
The One Show hosts Mel and Matt welcomed Jill onto the iconic green sofa this evening to talk about new drama Dark Money, which is set to air on BBC Two later this year.
The series tells the story of the Mensah family, which is torn apart when their son Isaac reveals he was sexually abused by a famous Hollywood director.
Jill stars as Isaac’s mum in the drama and talk quickly turned to the roles she’s offered and which she chooses to accept.
It was then Mel made a slip-up when probing Jill about how the roles have changed as she’s gotten older.
Matt probed: “Is it very difficult for you to make decisions to go into this world of dark drama like that, when you’re looking at so many things, glittery stuff?”
“No you kind of want to do it, you want to delve, you want to go there because that’s what you want to do, you want to mine for those uncomfortable emotions and those terrible situations,” Jill replied.
“You see people on television going through such extraordinary things, on the news, or read something in the paper and you think, any actor, you think how much that feel, how must that feel to experience anything like that, to be going through that.
“So when your read a script like Dark Money, as an actor, you’re
