Brand new psychological thriller 'Chloe' is set to hit our screens this Sunday (February 6).
Featuring a talented cast, led by Erin Doherty (The Crown), Chloe was filmed in Bristol and the surrounding region last year.
Set in the city, the six-part drama made by Mam Tor Productions for BBC One and Amazon Studios is created by Alice Seabright and stars Doherty alongside Billy Howle, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Jack Farthing, Poppy Gilbert, Lisa Palfrey, Brandon Micheal Hall, Alexander Elliot and Akshay Khanna.
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During filming, the production crew set up base at The Bottle Yard Studios in Spring 2021, where sets were built for interiors including Becky's (Erin Doherty) flat and a Bristol gallery location where key scenes take place.
Costume and make up departments, prop stores and production offices were all based on site, and the Studios' green screen was also used.
During the 15-week shoot, Bristol Film Office assisted the production crew in shooting at a number of locations across the city, meaning you may be able to spot a few familiar places on Sunday evening.
Locations used in filming include A Bond Warehouse near Cumberland Basin (which provided the setting for a nightclub), M Shed on Princes Wharf, The Arches industrial estate in St Philips and Picton Street in Montpelier.
Numerous other Bristol locations were also used, including the Bristol Marriot Royal Hotel on College Green, the exterior of St George’s Hall on Great George Street, Bristol Beacon, the Royal West Academy on Queen’s Road, The Forge in Colston Yard, Bar 44 in Clifton, Bristol’s harbourside, the Quay Street Diner and a private residence on Fernbank Road in Redland.
Further afield in the South West, filming took place at locations including Ston Easton Country Park in Somerset, Brean Down near Burnham on Sea, the Penny Brohn National Centre in Pill, Uphill near Weston-super-Mare, Walton Bay and a private property in Abbots Leigh.
Joanna Crow, who produced Chloe, has praised Bristol for being a 'theatre of opportunity'.
She said: "Bristol is a city that carries Drama in its blood. The city is a theatre of opportunity with ready-made stages in its gorges, docks, colourful streets and vibrant harbourside, robustly supported by both the dynamic operation at The Bottle Yard Studios and the post facilities at The Farm.
"‘Chloe’ has an idiosyncratic yet distinctively Bristol/South-West look and sound, but it’s thrilling story of obsession and grief is universally relatable."
Chloe follows Becky Green (Doherty), still living with her mum and working as a temp. Becky compares herself to the picture-perfect lives she sees on social media, compulsively returning to one account: Chloe’s (Poppy Gilbert). Chloe’s charmed life, adoring husband and circle of high-achieving friends are always just a click away.
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Becky can’t resist watching a life that contrasts so starkly with her own; a life spent caring for her mother, who has early-onset dementia, in their small seaside flat on the outskirts of Bristol.
But when Chloe dies suddenly, Becky’s need to find out how and why leads her to assume a new identity and engineer a ‘chance’ meeting with Chloe’s best friend, Livia (Pippa Bennet-Warner) and infiltrate Chloe's group of close-knit friends.
Through her alter-ego Sasha, Becky becomes a powerful, transgressive heroine; a popular, well-connected ‘someone’ with a life, and loves, that are far more exciting and addictive than the ‘no-one’ she is as Becky.
However, the pretence soon obscures and conflates reality, and Becky risks losing herself completely in the game she is playing.
Chloe will air on BBC One on Sunday, February 6, at 9pm.
