Madeleine Mantock Biography, Age, Ethnicity, Dating, Movies, Interview

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Madeleine Mantock Biography

Madeleine Mantock is a British actress. She is best known for her television work on the series Into the Badlands and a revival of the series The Tomorrow People. She primarily works in television, starring as main character Scarlett Conway in Casualty, since 2018, before she graduated drama school.

Between 2011 and 2012 She was part of the series for 36 episodes. In 2013, she appeared on Lee Nelson’s Well Funny People. This was before coming to the United States to be a main character, Astrid, on The Tomorrow People The series was canceled after one season.

Madeleine Mantock played the small role of Julie in the film, Edge of Tomorrow, before she was cast as the main character, Veil, on AMC’s Into the Badlands. Her character for ‘Into the Badlands’ has received positive response from all quarters. She had a role in the 2017 film, Breaking Brooklyn, and filmed her main role in Age Before Beauty.

In March 2018, Madeleine Mantock was cast in the lead role of Macy Vaughn in The CW’s fantasy drama series Charmed. She also appears in the 3 part BBC adaptation of Andrea Levy’s The Long Song.

Madeleine Mantock Age | How Old Is Madeleine Mantock

Madeleine Mantock was born in Nottinghamshire, England on 26th May, 1990. She is 28 years old as of 2018.

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Madeleine Mantock Ethnicity | Where is Madeleine Mantock From

Madeleine Mantock is of British nationality.

Madeleine Mantock Dating | Madeleine Mantock Boyfriend

Not every celebrity puts his or her life in the open. While some are busy posting their relationship statuses everywhere, Madeleine Mantock is silently secret. She is known to remain professional even in her acting. She has succeeded in showing her back to the paparazzi’s and nobody knows any details about her relationship status. To this end we can only speculate or lets assume she is single.

Though Madeleine Mantock has hinted that she has some ex- boyfriends whom she catches up with, she was careful enough to keep their details in the dark.

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Tell me why you wanted to be a part of Charmed.

Madeleine Mantock: We managed to get the pilot script, which they weren’t giving out very freely. I said, ‘No, I really want to get to read it so I know what I’m getting into. I was so pleasantly surprised at how funny and smart and conscious it was — I haven’t seen that in a really long time. I thought it was a wonderful way to broach important subjects, be they women’s issues or political issues, in a way that’s also tied into this wonderful magical fantasy that everybody loves.

The show feels as 2018 as the old Charmed felt ’90’s-early 2000’s. So although they’re so different, it has the same intensity of capturing a moment in culture.

Madeleine Mantock: We wanted it to be a kind of but a mirror to what society is at this point in time so that we can entertain, but also alleviate some worries and concerns and pressures that people deal with day to day. We want it to be a mirror of the 2018 life experience.

How did the experience of shooting a reboot compare to doing a show with a story that everyone is seeing for the first time?

Madeleine Mantock: I just read the material I was given and that’s was what I was excited about. It was only later that I was asked about, ‘How do you feel about living up to what the original cast did?’ or ‘Do you feel a responsibility to create something like they did?’ I really didn’t think about, because I was just so kind of enamored with what we were making.

As someone who loves the old show, I like that you’re not sort of giving into easy nostalgia, but just dropping hints here and there.

Madeleine Mantock: Yeah we definitely want to do that. There’s lots to pull from, they did eight seasons of a show and I mean I’ve never done eight seasons of a show so I can’t imagine what that takes for not just cast but crew as well and everybody involved.

In real life, which of the sisters are you most like?

Madeleine Mantock: It’s really funny on set because there are times when I look at each of us and I’m like, “Wow this is really real, okay, I didn’t know I was Macy like this.” But yeah, Macy in terms of needing everything to be logical, needing to understand everything, wanting order, and at times feeling more comfortable being a loner. I’d say those Macy qualities are also very much me.

It’s such a fitting time for there to be a socially aware Charmed reboot, with the colossal rise of Internet witch culture. How did you feel about not only making Charmed’s world more inclusive, but also providing some justice to the representations of witches in pop culture?

Madeleine Mantock: What I hope we can do with our show is really have fun and celebrate those different cultures and have people of all ethnicities and different backgrounds exploring these magical stories. It’s a big task, but I think we should lean into it. I’m trying to be patient in terms of: “Okay well I know we have to set this up, and I know we have to explore this and we have to do that and we have to learn about the history of this and the mythology of that.”

So you want it go further? With diverse reboots of formerly super white stories there’s always the question of,”are they just going to cast a person of color in a white role, or is it actually going to show how this person would interact the world differently.”

Madeleine Mantock: 100%. Our writer’s room is very inclusive — it’s a running joke that we have that we have one white cis male and he’s our token as opposed to it being the other way around. We have multiple communities represented in the room. It’s something that I think will take time to discuss because of the fact that the characters do all have different identities.

I feel like the confusion, and how people wanted to suss out everyone’s “real” ethnicity kind of reveals some of the really simplistic ways we talk about race, and prods at some of the blind spots in mainstream racial dialogue.

Madeleine Mantock: It’s a good thing that we should celebrate and I want us to represent that. People look at me and I do look like I could be Afro-Latina, but it just so happens that my family is from a different Caribbean island, and I am not Latina. It’s just a difficult thing that we need time as a show to develop like any other would. What we don’t want to do is shove it down people’s throats and go, “Hey I’m from here, I’m from here, and I’m from here!” It kind of has to happen organically and be a part of the story and a part of who these characters are. The key is to have specificity in the representation.

Twitter is a really challenging place to have such complex conversations.

Madeleine Mantock: It so is. I always want to engage with nuance, but I guess there’s part of me that wanted to be able to say and make it clear I didn’t take a role that was written for another ethnicity because I feel really strongly about that. You know, if they said this is a role for an Asian woman, I’d be like, ‘Well yeah you should cast somebody else for that.’ But I would love to make it clear that we’re trying to do the right thing in terms of having accurate and specific representation in the story.

How did being on a show all about women — where all the protagonists are women, with a women-led team — change the feeling on set, compared to your other TV experiences?

Madeleine Mantock: It changes things massively. I’m a person who has never really been afraid to tell people what I need or explain how I’m feeling, which on previous sets I think sometimes surprised people that a woman was confident enough and entitled enough to speak their minds. On this show, it felt like Christmas because I knew that we were allowed and it was encouraged for the first time.

It’s the difference between fighting to be heard, as opposed to being in an environment where people want to hear you.

Madeleine Mantock: It feels really freeing, and it makes me smile because it’s what we talk about what we hope to do with the show. We want it to be empowering and I do feel empowered at work.

Something I really like about the show is that, beyond the explicit #MeToo politics and the obvious politics is that the show is using bigger metaphors about the monsters in our society, and who’s treated as witches and outcasts and who has power. What do you think is the political muscle of the show?

Madeleine Mantock: I think what you said about the power dynamics is the most most interesting and the most important thing. You know, whether it’s to do with sexual harassment, whether it’s to do with race, whether it’s to do with gender, it’s all about the power dynamics. Who holds that power, and who abuses it? Whether that story and that message pertains to our leads or if we decide to portray that power dynamic with a demon, I just think it’s such a cool creative way to be able to talk about that kind of stuff. Yes, we do have times where it’s very on the nose [laughs] and I think that’s something we’re trying to embrace.

When they hit you over the head with it, that’s fun too!

Madeleine Mantock: Yes, along with the more sophisticated ideas. That was a part of it from the beginning. Jennie Snyder Urman wanted to do Charmed because she wanted to overtly link feminism and witchcraft, and within that be able to look at and address the opportunity to tip the scale within our stories and all of those different kinds of issues. Some people don’t want to watch a “political” show, they want to escape for an hour, which is fine.

It feels good to watch shitty men get what they deserve whether they’re being taken down by witches or taken down in a university. Okay, I have one sort of silly question. Is it true that there’s an actual witch writing on the show?

Madeleine Mantock: Yes! His name is Marcos and yeah he’s our resident witch.

What kind of witch is he?

Madeleine Mantock: I’m not 100% sure, I heard someone say Wiccan, but I don’t know if that’s correct. I don’t want to make assumptions because I’ve been on the other end of that, but he’s also one of our Latinx writers so I don’t know if he is a practicing Wiccan. But he and his friends started a little coven and it’s almost like how we talk about it. It’s really funny because with Melanie’s character, she is the lesbian sister but we don’t really refer to her as such, we’re like, ‘No it’s just part of her life, she just happens to be dating a women,’ and for him it’s the same: he just happens to be a witch!

Do you believe in witchcraft? Are you into astrology, tarot, crystals, anything like that?

Madeleine Mantock: I’ve got a varying degree of both knowledge and acceptance at this point.

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