{"id":15278,"date":"2022-05-12T15:59:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T13:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1644159"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:49:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T14:49:24","slug":"the-essex-serpent-stars-explain-how-characters-differ-from-book","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-essex-serpent-stars-explain-how-characters-differ-from-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essex Serpent stars explain how characters differ from book"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By James Hibbs\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Apple TV+ series The Essex Serpent<\/a> starts tomorrow, and it\u2019s fair to say the show brings with it some huge expectations.<\/p>\n

Not only is it starring A-listers including Tom Hiddleston and Claire Danes<\/a>, but it is also an adaptation of an enormously popular 2016 novel of the same name by Sarah Perry.<\/p>\n

However, as with any adaptation, it seems that we can expect some changes in how the story is presented on screen when compared with its written counterpart.<\/p>\n

Stars Cl\u00e9mence Po\u00e9sy and Frank Dillane, who play Stella Ransome and Luke Garrett in the series respectively, have opened up about some of these changes when speaking with RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press.<\/p>\n

Posed with the suggestion that Luke is almost a \u2018gargoyle\u2019 in the book, and Stella gradually turns blue, the actors were asked whether their characters had to be \u2018humanised\u2019 for the series.<\/p>\n

Po\u00e9sy responded by saying: \u201cYeah, but I still kind of turned blue in my head \u2013 just no one knew! And the set was gradually turning very blue. But of course it\u2019s a very different thing to have access to the inner monologue of every character to writing a script in order to turn it into a movie. So it was quite different.\u201d<\/p>\n