Joanna Page on Gavin & Stacey, Margot Robbie, and Nude Scenes
White Wine Question Time
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Our guest on this episode of White Wine Question Tim is Joanna Page, an actor and presenter from Swansea, who was told whilst she was training at RADA that she was not a bad actress, the problem was that she was Welsh…
Luckily for all of us she didn’t let these comments hold her back, and ended up leaving RADA early to join the Royal National Theatre and then the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in the star-studded 1999 BBC adaptation of David Copperfield, and then what proved to be one of the nation’s all-time favourite Christmas films, Love Actually.
She seems to have a knack of winning roles in some of our most beloved shows, playing the titular Stacey Shipman in the BAFTA-winning series Gavin & Stacey alongside Ruth Jones, James Corden, and Matthew Horne - the final episode was one of the most-watched TV shows of the last two decades, with an audience of over 20 million.
She has four children with her actor husband James Thornton, who she starred with in David Copperfield, but in a truly Dickensian plot-twist she didn’t meet him at the time – it took a later introduction to throw them together from drama school friend Maxine Peake
So sit back and enjoy this chat with Joanna Page as she discusses that Gavin & Stacey finale, Hollywood's very own Margot Robbie being a fan, and how she feels about nude scenes.
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of White Wine Question Time. |
| 0:06.1 | My parents do say, well, it's not Christmas until we've seen love actually. |
| 0:10.0 | And it's hilarious because it isn't Christmas until they've seen their daughters stark naked on top of Martin Freeman. |
| 0:16.5 | Me and Matt, we did our lines and then we ran into the photo and we all froze and then they |
| 0:21.2 | started playing the music. And what's mad is because we're all actors, we all held it together. Chris Goon and our director started going, cut, cut, you can all, you know, you can come out of it. It's okay. And as soon as she shouted cut, me and Matt just turned to each other, grabbed hold of each other and sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. |
| 0:42.2 | It's really difficult juggling, you know, being a mum and being with the kids to suddenly going, okay, bye, I'll see you next week. I'm just going to go on set and in front of everybody, |
| 0:46.5 | shove a pair of glasses on and try and be sexy and bend another man over and whack him on the |
| 0:51.5 | backside. It's just really difficult. |
| 0:59.3 | Music other man over and whack him on the backside. It's just really difficult. Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, the podcast that asked its guest, |
| 1:03.2 | three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. And my guest today is an actress |
| 1:08.6 | and presenter from Swansea, who was told during her training at Rada. |
| 1:12.6 | She wasn't a bad actress. |
| 1:14.4 | The problem was that, well, she was just Welsh. |
| 1:17.2 | So thank goodness that behind that butter wouldn't melt demeanour, |
| 1:20.1 | there's a feisty, stubborn and incredibly tenacious and talented actress who is never going to let those comments hold her back. |
| 1:26.4 | In fact, she ended up |
| 1:27.8 | leaving Rada early to join the Royal National Theatre and then the Royal Shakespeare Company, |
| 1:33.2 | appearing in the Star-studied 1999 BBC adaptation of David Copperfield, and then a role |
| 1:39.0 | in what proved to be one of the nation's all-time favourite Christmas movies, Love Actually. |
| 1:45.9 | She seems to have a knack of picking winning roles in some of our most beloved shows, playing the titular Stacey Shipman |
| 1:51.4 | in the BAFTA award-winning Gavin and Stacey alongside Ruth Jones, James Corden and Matthew Horn. |
| 1:57.4 | In fact, next year will mark 20 years since we first met Gavin and Stacey in Lester |
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