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Mar 1, 2022 · VERA star Brenda Blethyn has finally revealed the reason why the protagonist is never without her hat. The actress, 75, who has played protagonist DCI Vera Stanhope in the ITV series since 2011...
Feb 21, 2023 · In an interview with ITV about Vera series 12, Brenda revealed that her hat gave her and the crew cause for concern, whilst filming the storm scenes for The Darkest Evening. The show's main...
Jan 12, 2020 · Her scruffy mac- and bucket hat-wearing Geordie detective chief inspector Vera Stanhope is a straight-talking, work-obsessed loner - with a compassionate underbelly.
Jan 20, 2019 · Meet the woman who sells Vera hats in Newcastle - and even sold one to Brenda Blethyn herself. Annie Bakewell, from Haltwhistle, has a stall at Newcastle Quayside Market on Sundays and was...
- The First Vera Book Almost Didn’T Have Vera in It
- Blethyn Bulks Up For Filming
- Brenda Blethyn Shops For Vera on Her Own Time
- Author Anne Cleeves Now Hears Blethyn’S Voice as She’S Writing
- Northumberland Benefits from The Vera Effect
- Brenda Blethyn Is An Active Twitter User
- Blethyn Was Born with 11 Fingers
- Blethyn Almost Quit Vera After Series 7
- Vera Has Never Been Nominated For A BAFTA Award
- Have You Watched Vera?
Ann Cleeve’s novel The Crow Trap, written in 1999, never planned on including a detective. The Crow Trapwas conceived to be a single novel about three women conducting an environmental survey in the Northumberland National Park. That was until Vera jumped onto writer Ann Cleeves' page and completely changed her original plan. Cleeves said of The Cr...
Ann Cleeves originally wrote Vera as a bit of a frump. It wasn’t Cleeves' intention to show this as a negative trait, rather a reflection on how someone need not base their confidence on their fashion sense. Still, this posed a problem when it came time to film Blethyn, who is known for being an elegant woman. Cleeves said: “Brenda is much more gla...
Blethyn has got to know her character so well that she’ll buy clothes for her when she’s out shopping. It was on one of these shopping trips that Brenda purchased Vera’s infamous green bucket hat from a Newcastle market. A pair of comfortable boots Blethyn purchased have become a core part of Vera’s wardrobe. The ever-present hat is something Bleth...
Brenda Blethyn and Ann Cleeves have built a supportive friendship over the years. Cleeves says it’s now Blethyn’s voice she hears when writing dialogue for the Vera novels. Cleeves says Blethyn shares her ideas about her much-loved character, telling The Chronicle: “With some things in the script she’ll say ‘I don’t think she would say this to this...
The success of Vera has boosted tourism to its filming locations. The cast and crew spend six months all around Northumberland, specifically Newcastle, filming each series. The cast and crew love the location and its residents, and the feeling is mutual. ‘The Vera Effect’ refers to the influx of fans to the region to visit filming locations. If you...
Blethyn has 50k followers on Twitter and shares a wide variety of posts. In addition to sharing posts about Vera, the actor frequently uses the platform to bring awareness to lost and missing pets. Followers of Blethyn on Twitter will also learn about some of the other causes she cares about including the Ramsgate and Broadstairs Sea Cadets, the Th...
Brenda Blethyn is the youngest of nine siblings, born when her mother was 42. There was another surprise when Blethyn was born – an extra finger. Blethyn says “Like Anne Boleyn, I was born with an extra finger, which the doctor removed when I was a baby. So I'm a witch, according to the old superstition.”
Brenda briefly considered hanging up her green bucket hat after series seven finished. Thankfully, she decided against it stating: “I kind of missed doing it. The only way I can describe it is if you go out for a big slap-up meal and you've eaten too much and someone says, ‘would you like to see the menu?' You go, ‘Oh no, please leave me alone.' Bu...
Despite the popularity and success of Vera, the series has never been nominated for a BAFTA award. Anyone else think this is a crime against good TV?
Stream season 1, 2, 6, and 7 HERE on Acorn TVStream seasons 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, and 10 HERE on BritBoxMar 1, 2022 · Why Brenda Blethyn wears a hat in every episode of ITV Vera. MILLIONS of people tune in to watch DCI Vera Stanhope take on some of the grittiest crimes against a backdrop of the North East.
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Dec 13, 2020 · Vera is much more than the hat, the Columbo mac and the attitude. Blethyn’s version of Vera includes a wide range of audible “hmmphs”, the interrogative “hmmmms?”, and a chesty cackle....
