The award-winning star of Say Nothing and Trespasses refuses to play the fame game when they can fight government inaction. They open up on making amazing TV … and why morals matter more than nice handbags
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ew people are less daunted about the prospect of turning 30 than Lola Petticrew. “I used to be so afraid of getting old, and now I just think it’s the best thing ever,” they say. “I feel like I’m just coming into myself. And it feels fucking amazing. I think it’s such a fantastic thing to age – all the shit starts falling away and what you care about becomes more concentrated. I know what I want my life to be now, and I’m pretty stern on it. I don’t have to care about anything else.”
They’re telling me this over Zoom from New York, where Petticrew is shooting Furious, the new show by Elizabeth Meriwether (New Girl, Dying for Sex). Petticrew plays a character who was sex-trafficked as a child and is now out for revenge, tailed by an FBI agent played by Emmy Rossum.
The role is a departure for Petticrew – who also just signed on for Netflix’s new Assassin’s Creed adaptation. They’ve spent much of the past year playing two Irish women of the Troubles generation. In November 2024 they starred as IRA agent Dolours Price in Say Nothing, an adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s true-crime book of the same name. And this November, in Channel 4’s Trespasses, they played Cushla Lavery, a young Catholic teacher who becomes involved with an older Protestant married man, with disastrous consequences. From those broad strokes of description, you might think there’s much to compare in the two roles, Petticrew’s biggest to date.
