Helen- the smile doesn't reach her eyes. She wants this as badly as, say, Will, she's clearly very very ambitious. There's nothing wrong with that obvs, but the slightly ditsy northern salt of the earth thing doesn't quite ring true to me. In the VTs it's always "look at daft old me, I'll never manage this, he wants me to do what?!!!" And then she's grittily perfect. She's that girl in class who always says "I'll fail this O'level I know I will/I'll get the bottom mark" and then is always top. Last week when we saw that hesitation - I think it was because for once she did genuinely think she'd not nailed it in the week. All the other times she knows fine well how good she is.
I think you have hit the nail on the head there Sollnvictus (can't tag you for some reason, get a strange message when I try)
I just couldn't quite figure out what to think of her but that is spot on.