“Sure,” Alexandra says, face crumpled in sadness. “I’ll pick you up tomorrow.” Chloe hangs up immediately as Alexandra stands, crestfallen, in front of their house.

“Can you imagine?” Keddie asks Stylist.co.uk on the phone from her home in Australia. “All of a sudden she’s saying I don’t want to be with you, and you’re not included… That would be so frightening as a mother. There’s a lot of fear in Alexandra and I hope that I have made the progression from really palpable fear on her part through to great strength. There’s a redemption for her as a woman and as a mother later in the show.”

(In terms of forthcoming white-knuckle moments in The Cry, Keddie suggests hanging out for episode three. “That’s when we really see her fight for her rights,” she hints. “It’s good.”)

It’s this particular storyline in The Cry, which explores the potential for Alexandra’s only child to be ripped out of her arms and sent to live on the literal other side of the world, that proved “almost unbearable” for the actress during filming.

“Having two children [sons Valentino and Luca] myself,” she says, “some days I found certain scenes almost unbearable to approach. As much as I enjoyed them as an actor and stretching myself I found it really difficult because it was highly emotional.”

The Cry: why this scene was “almost unbearable” for star Asher Keddie