VIEWERS will be desperate to see all revealed as ITV’s latest gripping crime drama, Marcella, heads towards next week’s conclusion.
The complex series deliberately styled itself after popular, complex Scandi shows.
And star Anna Friel says she was just as happy to be kept in the dark as to the guilty party.
“They asked if I wanted to know and I said: ‘Will it inform my character? Will it make me change the way I play it?’” explained Anna.
“So I told them if it didn’t help the story I didn’t want to know. We have three blocks of scripts with episodes one to three, three to six and then six to eight.
“So I said: ‘Tell me in block three.’ Marcella wouldn’t know anyway.
“And, of course, it might be her!
“None of us knew how this would end until we got those final scripts.
“Any one of us could end up as a victim, witness or suspect.”
Anna turns 40 in July and she says she’s still not sure how to mark the big day.
“It’s doesn’t feel young because now I’m playing mothers,” she admits.
“You suddenly go: ‘I’ve been doing this for such a long time.’
“But I look at my 21st birthday cards and go: ‘Oh, that seems like last week.’
“I’m still in two minds whether to have a party.
“I did for my 30th and it gave me so much stress because you think: ‘What if people don’t turn up or what if they don’t like it?’
“Or whether just to get a big group of friends and go away. I don’t know yet.
“I’m going to see what direction life takes me.
“It depends where I am.”
Marcella, ITV, Mon, 9pm.
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