Pop star Lily Allen is among the cast of six-part comedy drama Dreamland, which follows the lives and loves of four sisters in the seaside town of Margate. She plays Mel, who comes home after living in Paris for some years and makes a revelation that causes problems for her family, including eldest sister Trish (Freema Agyeman) and mum Cheryl (Frances Barber). Here, the singer-turned-actress reveals more.
Tell us about your character…
Mel used to be miserable in Margate and couldn’t see a way of rectifying that, so she tried to escape. She had aspirations beyond her home town and wanted to
