The Night Manager's Elizabeth Debicki concedes that co-star Tom Hiddleston is 'basically perfect'... as she admits she DIDN'T watch Broadchurch before acting alongside Olivia Colman
Elizabeth Debicki has opened up about acting alongside British drama heavyweights Tom Hiddleston, Olivia Colman and Hugh Laurie in The Night Manager - and how she had to instruct herself not to let herself feel intimidated by them.
Speaking to the Radio Times, Debicki branded the cast of the hit BBC series 'a pretty epic line-up of your nearest and dearest national treasures'.
The 26-year-old starlet admitted to the magazine that she felt glad not to have seen Broadchurch before filming of the spy drama commenced.
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Rising star: The Night Manager's Elizabeth Debicki brands Tom Hiddleston 'basically perfect' and admits she was 'glad not to have seen Broadchurch' before acting alongside Olivia Colman
Given that co-star Colman has one of the lead roles in the ITV crime series - which returns for a third season soon - Debicki said that she'd have been more intimidated than she already was by the BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning Colman had she watched it first.
Debocki also revealed that she thinks 'Hiddleston is basically perfect'.
The star - who notably performed in a series of intimate and steamy sex scenes with the hunky actor on the series - explained that the success of the show took the cast and crew by surprise, despite it's stellar line up of performers.
'We were a bit flummoxed, as well as delighted,' she said. 'It's an interesting thing with film and TV, you can never judge what the climate is, what the world is doing at that moment, for the show to make that kind of impact.'
On-screen romance: Speaking to the Radio Times, Debicki branded the cast of the hit BBC series 'a pretty epic line-up of your nearest and dearest national treasures'
Getting intimate: The star - who notably performed in a series of steamy sex scenes with the hunky Tom Hiddleston on the series - says she finds him to be 'perfect'
Referring to the progression the story took from book to TV, the actress went on: 'When we set out to make The Night Manager, we were all very aware that in the book – and John le Carré [the author] doesn't mind me saying so – Jed [her character] was quite lacking in dimension.
'I just don't think she was his focus. Also, in that genre, women just become a strange projection of male fantasy, they don't seem to think or feel anything; if something ripples their surface, they instantly recover. And you wonder where their soul is, really.
'I wouldn't know how to play a role like that, I'm more of a mining actress, trying to find what's underneath and bring it out.'
Idol: Given that co-star Colman has one of the lead roles in Broadchurch - which returns for a third season soon - Debicki said that she'd have been more intimidated than she already was by the BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning Colman had she watched it first
Crème de la crème: Debicki explained that the success of the show took the cast and crew by surprise, despite it's stellar line up of performers
Referring back to Colman, Debicki explained to the publication how it wasn't simply her determination as an actor to give the character of Jed some depth - much like Colman did with her role as Angela Burr.
'Susanne [Bier, the director] would never have put a female role in a spy show who wasn't multi-dimensional, who didn't have an inner life. It worked with Olivia and it felt quite organic while we were doing it.
'But watching it back now, there's this interesting strain through the story, about motherhood, maternal instinct and maternal love, what the meaning of life really is. You need that when you're dealing with a story about the arms race and men killing men, and men looking for meaning.
Blonde ambition: The stunning star's next role is in The Kettering Incident, an Australian television drama series that will air on Channel 4 this year
'We didn't sit down and say, 'We've got to make that character interesting,' she just became interesting. It's partly Susanne herself, a woman so full of love and her own secrets, and deeply intelligent.'
Each episode of The Night Manager, which was reported to have cost £20 million, drew more than 6 million viewers when it aired last year.
The full interview can be read in this week's Radio Times, out now
The stunning star's next role is in The Kettering Incident, an Australian television drama series that will air on Sky Atlantic on February 15.
Playing the role of Anna Macy, a doctor from London, the eight-episode run was shot in Tasmania and actually incorporates elements of the supernatural.
'It's sort of like The Killing or The Bridge,' she teased. 'The characters are interesting enough that you understand it chunk by chunk, peeling until you get to the core.'
Much like her avoidance of Broadchurch, Debicki purposely steered clear from the aforementioned foreign series before shooting The Kettering Incident too.
And, she says, for the same reasons.
'I probably would have been heavily influenced by them – I'm obsessed with The Bridge. Instead, I did my own version of what Anna was, she's quite raw in a way, and she unravels really interestingly.'
She finished by adding: 'I'm always late for every party, but I'm actually glad this time!'
The full interview can be read in this week's Radio Times, out now.
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