Olivia Colman: Landscapers stars the bizarre real-life killers behind her new TV series | News about Ant-Man & Art

In 2013, the bodies of a man and woman were discovered buried in the garden of a house on the outskirts of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.

The remains turned out to be those of Patricia Wycherley, 63, and her 85-year-old husband, William, whose neighbors allege had packed up and left for a vacation 15 years earlier.

They were, in fact, shot dead by their daughter and son-in-law Susan and Christopher Edwards, their deaths shrouded for years in a story more bizarre than fiction now being made into a drama. edition in four new seasons of limited Sky Original. Landscapers series, starring Oscar winner Olivia Colman and David Thewlis.

Because while the Edwards stole almost £300,000 when they pretended everything was fine, they weren’t using the money to fund a lavish lifestyle – but rather a fantasy world.

Colman told Sky News that in the process of preparing for Landscapers, written by her husband Ed Sinclair, she developed feelings for the pair.

“I felt good about them very early on because of what Ed figured out,” she says. “He spoke to her lawyer, who said she was a very shy, gentle, well-read person, [a] good woman. And you go, “okay, isn’t that what everyone told us?!”

When the case went to court in 2014, in an odd twist, the couple spent most of their proceeds buying Hollywood memorabilia.

In Landscapers, unlike most typical crime dramas, the show sees Susan’s delusional hauntings brought to life as her fantasy fantasies are brought to life on the screen. Photo.

“We discovered, through the show, that she faced abuse at the hands of her father as a little girl, and I think it was her evasion to be like the others. imaginary man. [can be] hero and that she finally met her knight in shining armor,” said Colman.

Thewlis, known to many for her roles in I’m Thinking Of Ending Things, Fargo and the Harry Potter film, playing Colman’s on-screen husband.

“I read the script and thought it was perfect, the best thing I’ve read in many, many years,” he told Sky News.

“I was surprised when I accessed the actual story to find out what percentage of it was completely real and indeed the parts of truth were the weirdest parts.”

Arguably one of the strangest facts to come up with was the way Susan convinced her husband that French actor Gerard Depardieu was his pen pal.

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“If it was a sh*t scenario, I’d be really worried,” joked Colman while working on her husband’s show. “I could have said I wasn’t free, I was picking loose strings out of my stockings or something, but I was really excited when I first read it. It was just the uniqueness of it. and creativity.”

Before the interview, Colman and Thewlis had just found out that Christopher Edwards watched the show’s trailer in prison.

“I’m a bit annoyed by that,” Thewlis said. “Sometimes people forget they’re real.”

“He said the hair was so good!” Colman chips in.

“It must be very strange,” Thewlis mused. “You know, Susan’s fantasies are movies and here she’s portrayed in a TV series, she’s on the big screen. It’s a weird twist, isn’t it? She’s going to be. fantasize about what now?”

Landscapers premieres on Sky Atlantic and NOW on Tuesday, December 7