Paloma Faith is taking her first big TV role very seriously.
The singer is playing villain Bet Sykes in Batman spin-off Pennyworth – and says it’s turned her into a real-life psycho. So much so, she even threatened to kill her neighbour’s dog.
She explains: “I recently got into an argument with my next-door neighbour and told him I was gonna kill his dog.
“And I realised afterwards that I hadn’t got out of character yet, and that’s not really my natural behaviour.
“And then my boyfriend was like, ‘That’s really emasculating’. Now I’m creating bad relations with people who live on my street.”
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As well as scaring her neighbours, Paloma, 37, says she and her co-stars were left terrified by her performance on screen.
She explains: “It’s very odd because people keep coming up to me on the set saying, ‘I’m scared of you. It’s too real, and we’re really worried’.
“People on set are British and they know me as a person who’s kind of a bit playful and stuff, and Bet’s not that playful, except with people’s bodies.
“When we watched the pilot, I was a little bit scared of myself because it does seem quite real.”
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Cold-blooded killer Bet is the villain who is pitted against young butler Alfred Pennyworth (played by Jack Bannon) and his new boss Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge), the future father of Batman Bruce Wayne.
Pennyworth follows the story of Alfred, who previously served as a soldier in the SAS.
In the new show, which takes place in London in the Sixties, the butler sets up a security company with billionaire Thomas.
Speaking in the US to promote the Epix series, mum-of-one Paloma adds: “I’m having the time of my life because I feel like Pennyworth is amazing – it’s like pure escapism.”
The series is out this summer.
