Olivia Colman unrecognisable with yellowing teeth and white hair in new role
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Hollywood star Olivia Colman has had a creepy bridal makeover for her role as Miss Havisham in the BBC's new adaptation of Great Expectations.
In a teaser trailer for the drama, adapted from Charles Dickens' novel, Olivia, 49, sports yellow teeth, white hair, a floral head display and a stained wedding gown.
The short clip shows a young Pip, played by Tom Sweet, arrive at Satis House, to meet the vindictive Miss Havisham for the first time.
She says to Pip: "Let me see you, what a prize creature we have fished from the river."
Great Expectations follows Pip as he strives to be a gentleman in the mid 1800s, and falls in love with Miss Havisham's adopted daughter, Estella.
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The reclusive Miss Havisham always wears her wedding dress after being jilted at the alter, unable to move on from the terrible day.
Olivia joins a long line of celebrated actresses who have played the literary icon, such as Olivia's The Crown co-stars, Helena Bonham Carter and Gillian Anderson.
The latest adaptation is set to star well known faces such as Matt Berry and Fionn Whitehead at Pip. Shalom Brune-Franklin, seen recently in Line of Duty, plays the aloof Estella.
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It has been a buy time for Olivia, as she recently starred in Sam Mendes' Empire of Light, as a lonely cinema worker.
The actress plays Hilary Small, a lonely duty manager at a coastal cinema in the 80s.
As well as battling mental illness, Hilary is having an affair with not one but two men – her boss, Mr Ellis [Colin Firth], and new colleague Stephen, played by Top Boy’s Micheal Ward.
The Oscar winner told the Mirror she found the premise "a little bit scary".
She said: “Playing a woman of my age who’s having a love affair with a younger man, that’s the most terrifying part of the whole film for me.
“But then I met Micheal [who plays Olivia’s young lover, Stephen] and he made me feel much more at ease. Micheal was much more mature about it than I was!”
Luckily for Olivia, having played such troubled characters, she's not one to dwell on a role once the cameras stop rolling.
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She explained: “I’m not one that takes things home with me, so I was fine,” she says. “I like to throw myself in, I like to be as truthful and honest as possible – but then, I don’t have that problem [switching off], which I’m very grateful for. It can leave a residue, but I don’t have that.”
Olivia will also reprise her role as Nick Nelson’s supportive mum, Sarah, in the Netflix smash Heartstopper.
She voices Mama Bear in the DreamWorks animation Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, out now, while later in the year she’ll star Timothée Chalamet in the much anticipated Charlie And The Chocolate Factory prequel, Wonka.
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