Olivia Colman appeared on the Graham Norton Show on BBC
Radio 2 this morning to chat about the new ITV drama Broadchurch.
Olivia repeated writer Chris Chibnall's description of the drama and said that it was going to be the sort of story
that you hear every now and again that breaks everyone's hearts. Broadchurch
is set in a small community where everyone knows everybody else and her
character is in the difficult position of knowing the victim very well. “She
wanted to be in the police force to serve her community and then this awful
thing happens – then you suddenly wish you didn't have this job,” she said.
She found the experience of filming traumatic scenes very
cathartic and offset the cast were able to have a giggle as they had cried all
their tears during filming.
Olivia talked about the starry cast (“It’s a bit much…You could do
a drinking game, everytime you see a famous face”), and described David Tennant
as the nicest man in the world, and she and host Graham mused on David’s
ability to be likeable even when he is playing unlikeable. “He’s playing a recalcitrant,
slightly socially awkward guy, with a past, but you sort of love him”. They
also all wanted to get straight back into doing something lighter straight
afterwards “While we were filming, Jodie and I and Andrew and David and I were
all crying and saying ‘I want to do a musical!’” she joked, “But it is lovely
to always try and do something different, that’s the ideal”.
She also revealed her on set injury when Jodie Whittaker
managed to dislocate her knee during a struggle on the beach in early scenes.
She said it was painful, but “luckily popped out and popped straight back in
again”.
Broadchurch stars
Olivia Colman and David Tennant as two police officers attemting to find the
killer of a yound boy in a small seaside community. Andrew Buchan, Jodie
Whittaker, Pauline Quirke and Arthur Darvill also star. The eight part series
begins on ITV at 9pm on Monday 4th March.
Listen to Olivia chatting to Graham via BBC iPlayer. The interview, which should play worldwide, begins at 1hour 34 minutes and is available to hear again until Saturday 2nd March.
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