Ben Whishaw
- Actor
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Review: This Is Going To Hurt hooks you in from the start
Most of us work to live, but junior doctor Adam lives to work.
Tracey Bryce, The Sunday Post, 23rd February 2022This Is Going To Hurt, BBC One review
Ben Whishaw is supremely nuanced as the screen alter ego of obstetrician Adam Kay.
David Nice, The Arts Desk, 15th February 2022This Is Going To Hurt review
The tone chops so violently between light and shade that sometimes it forgets to take the viewer with it, but Whishaw effectively embodies the bloodshot-eyed desperation of a macho-hours work culture where every slip can mean life or death.
Barbara Ellen, The Guardian, 13th February 2022This Is Going To Hurt was very eye-popping and I did really enjoy it
The combination of gallows humour and bloody gore is not the most shocking and disturbing thing about this series though. No, what really strikes you is that it is set in 2006, long before Brexit, Covid and our current Tory overlords began doing their stuff. I mean, if NHS staff and patients had it this tough back then...
Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 10th February 2022This Is Going To Hurt, review
Ben Whishaw delivers in warts-and-all portrait of our chaotic NHS.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 9th February 2022NHS workers aren't heroes - they're people who deserve much better
The BBC's adaptation of Adam Kay's memoir This Is Going To Hurt is a rousing defence of an NHS in the face of forces that seem bent on its eradication, writes Louis Chilton.
Louis Chilton, The Independent, 9th February 2022This Is Going To Hurt review
Whishaw is always brilliant when playing passive-aggressive, nervous men at breaking point, and this role - adapted from Kay's real-life medical memoir by the author himself - is perfect for him.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 9th February 2022Paddington 3 to start filming before the end of 2022
Ben Whishaw (who voices Paddington) has just confirmed that Paddington 3 will start filming before the end of 2022.
Fiona Underhill, The Digital Fix, 9th February 2022This Is Going To Hurt review
Obstetric doctor Adam Kay (Ben Whishaw) grapples with the exhausting daily demands of working in the NHS and handling a new trainee (Ambika Mod), while trying to maintain a relationship with his boyfriend (Rory Fleck Byrne) and avoid getting struck off for malpractice.
Boyd Hilton, Empire, 8th February 2022Ben Whishaw and Adam Kay on their brutally honest NHS drama
As Adam Kay's wince-inducing diaries become a BBC drama, he and his on-screen self, Ben Whishaw, reveal how they recreated the joy and trauma of life as an overworked junior doctor.
Rhik Samadder, The Times, 8th February 2022