I'm Not Prepared For Fame

As the BBC’s latest Sunday night drama, The Little Drummer Girl, hits screens, Hannah Flint meets Florence Pugh, its breakout star.

- Hannah Flint

IN AN AUTUMN that has made household names of Richard Madden (Bodyguard) and Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), the most recent reason to stay in arrived last Sunday – in the shape of the BBC’s new spy thriller, The Little Drummer Girl, adapted from a John le Carré novel.

Widely tipped as ‘The Night Manager 2’ (the actual second series of which is apparently in the works), the show is set in Europe in 1979 and follows a team of Israeli spies. And despite being a slower burn than The Night Manager, it was hailed after its first episode as ‘gripping espionage’ (The Guardian), a ‘beautiful and oddly disconcerting piece of filmmaking’ (The Independent) and ‘more plausible than previous Sunday night incumbent, Bodyguard’ (The Times).