Monday, 5 August 2019

Articles Where Are They Now - Adrift Cast? by DJ Forrest



Adrift first aired in 2008, and was directed by Mark Everest and written by Chris Chibnall. It starred the regular cast, along with Ruth Jones, Robert Pugh and Lorna Gayle.

It told of the negative rift spikes that would take people away to ravaged planets where they’d spend years trying to get home, aged and mad. It told of young Jonah Bevan walking home across the barrage, watched by his Mum. In the next instance, he was gone. Vanished. Which led Andy Davidson to call on Gwen, to find the missing persons. This led to her finding out about Flat Holm Island, and the Disappeared.


Ruth Jones


‘Nikki’

"Promise me you won't do this to anyone else. Before, I had the memory. Whenever I thought of him, I'd see him laughing with his mates, playing football, scoffing his breakfast. And now I just hear that, that terrible noise."

Nikki Bevan was happier when she knew her son might be out there somewhere. When she learnt of the trauma her son had gone through and what he had become, it broke her.


To be fair, Ruth Jones needs no introduction. For those of us who have seen back to back episodes of Gavin & Stacey and Stella, we know who she is, and we can't wait for the Christmas edition of Gavin & Stacey which is currently being filmed in Barry as we speak.

Since Torchwood, Ruth has played character roles in Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Little Dorrit, The Street, Ar y Tracs, Agatha Christie's Marple, Igam Ogam, The Great Outdoors, The Vicar of Dibley, Eat Locals, Stella, Nativity Rocks! and of course Gavin & Stacey.


Robert Pugh


‘Jonah’

“I was walking home. There was a light. I woke up and the land was on fire. There were flames for miles on end. A man pulled me from the flames, took me to a building where they tried to work on the burns. I thought I was going to die. I don't remember when the ground started shaking. And then I realised it wasn't a building after all. It was a rescue craft. The last off a burning planet. We watched the Solar System burn. It was so beautiful.”

When Jonah returned, he was very much the older man, changed and scarred by the ravages of a burning planet, and went crazy staring into the heart of a dark star. What he'd seen had driven him mad. His primal screams go on for 20 hours, and his best phases grow less by the day.


Robert Pugh has appeared in many familiar dramas and shows, including Doctor Who during the 11th Doctor's incarnation as Tony Mack in the two parter The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood in 2010.

Since Torchwood, Robert has played characters for Silent Witness, Lark Rise to Candleford, Robin Hood, Into the Storm, Framed, Accused, Justice, The Shadow Line, Midsomer Murders, Hunky Dory, The Hollow Crown, Shameless, Love Bite, Game of Thrones, Inspector George Gently, Atlantis, Doctor Foster, Mr Selfridge, Damilola, Our Loved Boy, Canaries, Knightfall, Vanity Fair, and has just completed Eternal Beauty as Dennis, and currently in post production with Chariot as Len Lewys-Jones.


Lorna Gayle


‘Helen’

"You've seen him in the good phase. It gets briefer every day. It really might be best if you leave."

Helen took care of those taken by the negative rift spikes on Flat Holm Island. Jack told her that the patients had been used in experiments.


Since Torchwood Helen has played many character roles since 2008, from a Passenger in The Dark Knight, Rose Watt and Lorraine Jackson in The Bill. Bimpe in This is England '86 in 2010, Phoebe Richards in Silk in 2011. Dancing on the Edge as Edith in 2013, a Bus Driver in Love Matters in 2013 also. A Midwife in Utopia a year later. As Colette and Irene Daniels in Eastenders from 2005 - 2015, Shontal in Fried in the same year. A Midwife again, this time in Cuckoo in 2016, Ella Chambers and Fay Harrison for Holby City from 2015 - 2017. Gracie Fields and Mrs Adeoye in Doctors from 2013 - 2017, Gloria in The Rebel in 2017, Margaret in Carmilla in 2019 and has just completed a film short Shift the Plane as Danny's Mum.


Oliver Ferriman


‘Young Jonah’

(texts) Chill.:-P


Young Jonah managed to reply to his Mum's text as he crossed to the middle of the barrage bridge before a negative rift spike destroyed his life forever.


Oliver Ferriman played Dai in Granny of the Dead in 2017. Weirdly there are two Oliver Ferriman’s on Internet, but not much written about the one in question. 


Philippa Burt

‘Dweller (uncredited)’

On the island, underground, Phillippa played one of the dwellers of the island, unable to return home after being taken by a negative rift spike. I think Philippa played the character who was watching the television in the room, and turned to face Gwen, her face scarred at one side.

Prior to her role in Torchwood, Phillipa played a peasant, again uncredited in the Doctor Who episode The Family of Blood in 2007.


Since Torchwood, Burt has played a host of uncredited and credited roles from an Air Hostess in Gavin & Stacey, a Professor in Bonekickers, and a Court Attendant in Poirot episode Mrs McGinty's Dead in 2008. Herman's wife in LifeSpam: My Child is French, and a Maid in Desperate Romantics in 2009.



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