MobLand’s Lisa Dwan: ‘I turn down a lot of roles. Anything deeply misogynistic, I just say no’

The Lisa Dwan you’ll have come to know, by way of television, film or theatre, is one who channels extremes. Poised at a crossroads of ferocity and grit, directors prefer to paint the actor in shots that pick up her wildness — whether that’s as Lizzie Daughton, the scowling Irish drug lord in Channel 4’s Top Boy, or as Tori Matthews, a doctor among paramilitaries in BBC’s Bloodlands . On camera, Dwan boasts an almost offensive self-possession, giving herself to the camera comprehensively, and channelling acute states with the kind of determination we usually reserve for Olympians.

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