Can Joan Contain Her Freaky Thoughts?To the outside world, she’s maintaining she’s Kath Maxwell. But inside she knows she’s Joan “The Freak” Ferguson. And with memories back, Joan is fighting all kinds of urges. The question is will she act on them? This week, Joan’s staring at Governor Will Jackson (Robbie Magasiva) in the yard when her memory flashes to being buried in a coffin. We won’t spoil what happens next, but it is shocking, even for hardened Wentworth fans. Prison psychiatrist Greg Miller (David de Latour) is still under the impression Joan has amnesia. And when he asks her to share any details about her previous revelation, that she watched her father kill her mother as a child, Joan’s not interested. “You keep pushing,” she says. But is the doctor pushing her too far? Is The Freak about to blow a fuse?
“So much of how we function on a day-to-day basis we take for granted, because you use the power in your legs, the muscles in your legs and your lower back all day,” she explains. “I noticed immediately that I was getting calluses on my hands and my upper body was getting stronger, but sorer. You do feel very restricted when you’re in that chair, and I noticed too, that on set, people would treat me differently, even though they knew I was completely able to walk on my own.
As for what the rest of the season holds for our wounded heroine, Jenkinson previews that this is just the start of an uphill battle for the usually stoic inmate, who has already dealt with more than her fair share of trauma. “As if being in the position that Allie had been in, you know, Top Dog, then attacked, persecuted, targeted, having her family die around her [isnt enough]. I mean, on top of that, to have such a traumatic and violent accident. It’s a really interesting season for Allie; she goes through it!”
“I knew that it wasn’t going to be a fatal stabbing,” she tells Foxtel Insider. “And it was obviously very thrilling for me to not only survive a near Wentworth death, but also to see that Allie was going to be coming back into the prison a much, much changed woman… in a wheelchair.”
“They gave me the audition scenes to read beforehand… and I was just sort of casting my eyes over it and I thought, ‘Oh, so Judy’s in a wheelchair. Interesting,’” she recalls. “I got into the audition and we started running these scenes and all these actresses were walking around and I’m like, ‘This is interesting, none of them know that she’s in a wheelchair.’ I looked [closer] at the script, and I’m like, ‘Oh s***, Im in a wheelchair!’”
In Plain Sight:No-one in Cell Block H would have suspected Judy Bryant was the one who shivved Allie in the showers in last year’s tense finale.But this dangerous would-be killer is feeling more than a little nervous when Allie reappears this week.Judy’s attack on Allie was definitely bold. The activist and hacker stole Lou’s mobile and money – which she used to commit an act of terrorism. But silencing Allie, because she knew about the money and phone, was also fraught with danger.
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