BUDDING STAR

‘One of the things that I’m most proud about in my acting career has been to achieve a black eye from a catfight’

It was the romantic TV comedy that propelled Catherine Zeta-Jones to stardom, and now Sabrina Bartlett is following in her footsteps as the beguiling Mariette in The Larkins, an adaptation of HE Bates’s The Darling Buds of May.

However, the 30-year-old and when I auditioned for the part; I didn’t look at photos or the show as I wanted to give it my own interpretation,” she says. “At some point I would love to revisit it, but I found it really useful while we were filming not to have someone else’s view of Mariette in my head.”