He believes she was on the spectrum of being a sociopath or a psychopath or whatever she may have been. Speaking to David Wilson, a criminologist who wrote a book about her, was really helpful for me. How hard was it to get into the head of this person that you obviously are not like? Unless you are. How can I say no? It was an easy decision to make in terms of what I wanted to do as an actress. Then this script came along seven weeks before I finished shooting and I just went, “Well, that’s what I’ve been saying.” I asked for it and it came. People kept saying, “What do you want to do after playing Anna?” I jokingly kept saying, “I don’t know, maybe play a murderer or something.” It was sort of an offer I couldn’t refuse, I must admit. “Dark Angel” is quite a change for you from “Downton Abbey.” Did you feel like cleansing your pallet. Here is an edited transcript of our chat.
#Dark angel on masterpiece tv#
I spoke with the Emmy nominee more than a year ago at the TV Critics Association event in Pasadena, Calif. “Dark Angel” is Froggatt’s first role since “Downton Abbey” ended. She then cashed in modest insurance policies on many of her victims. Her chosen method of murder was spiking her victims’ tea with arsenic, a poison widely available at the time. That’s nearly three times as many known victims as her male contemporary, Jack the Ripper. Froggatt loses any trace of sweet lady’s maid Anna Bates in the film that follows about 15 years of Cotton’s life and eventual hanging in 1873.Īlthough only convicted for the murder of her 7-year-old stepson, she was suspected of killing between 12 and 19 others-including several of her children and stepchildren, her mother, three husbands, a lover and a friend. Viewers can decide for themselves when “Dark Angel” airs 9/8c May 21 as part of “Masterpiece” on PBS. “I just have to try to make sense of her for myself, and in turn, hopefully, for the audience.” But I am fascinated by her,” Froggatt told me. “I can’t say I like this person because I don’t.
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Downton Abbey standout Joanne Froggatt knows fans aren’t going to like her latest character-Victorian era serial killer Mary Ann Cotton.
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