{"id":7986,"date":"2021-11-29T16:55:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T15:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1522229"},"modified":"2021-11-29T17:18:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T16:18:08","slug":"behind-the-scenes-on-landscapers-with-olivia-colman-and-david-thewlis","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/behind-the-scenes-on-landscapers-with-olivia-colman-and-david-thewlis\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes on Landscapers with Olivia Colman and David Thewlis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 29 November 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Will Sharpe\u2019s new HBO drama Landscapers stars two of the UK\u2019s finest actors in the lead roles, with Olivia Colman and David Thewlis set to step into the shoes of Susan and Chris Edwards \u2013 a real-life couple accused of double murder.<\/p>\n

The series promises to be a must-watch piece of television, and RadioTimes.com<\/a> can exclusively reveal a featurette that takes viewers behind the scenes of the upcoming show.<\/p>\n

The four-minute clip is titled Landscapers: Love, Truth and Fantasy, and sees the two stars \u2013 and director Sharpe \u2013 discussing Chris and Susan\u2019s relationship and some of the key themes of the four-part series.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do all kinds of things for love and often for things that we mistake for love,\u201d Thewlis says at the beginning of the video, before Colman adds: \u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019d kill someone for love\u2026 but then no one\u2019s ever asked me!\u201d<\/p>\n

Sharpe then provides an introduction to the series, saying: \u201cThe premise of Landscapers is that Susan and Chris Edwards were accused of the double murder of Susan\u2019s parents, and then of burying them in the parents\u2019 backyard in Mansfield.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s their love story, and along the way we explore various versions of the truth as it may or may not have been presented by different characters.\u201d<\/p>

Speaking about her character, Colman explains: \u201cWhat\u2019s fascinated me most about playing the character Susan is her fantasy world. I love the way we see her fantasy and that\u2019s been really fun having someone with such a vivid imagination.<\/p>\n

\u201cSusan has quite clear influences in what she considers to be romantic and she loves black and white films and romantic films, she loves westerns, damsels in distress and a heroic man. Chris is her knight in shining armour, her Gary Cooper, her cowboy. She just wanted to be rescued I think.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Thewlis says: \u201cChris is always trying to save someone and has never succeeded. He gives up his life to serve Susan, to serve her fantasies to live in her world. And he would say at the end that he never gave up the real world for her, that she was the real world.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the big parts of the story is why \u2013 this is not really a spoiler \u2013 why he ultimately gives them both up, which he does early on in the story, we see him surrender himself to the British police. And why he did that after 15 years is one of the core questions of the whole series.\u201d<\/p>\n