Yahoo News Jenna Coleman is deeply unsettling in The Cry teaser
The latest look at Jenna Coleman's new BBC drama The Cry is cold, unflinching and likely to haunt you for a while watching it.
The series, which replaces Bodyguard on Sunday nights on BBC One, is an adaptation of the acclaimed Helen FitzGerald novel that examines the aftermath of a kidnapping in a remote Australian village.
Coleman and Ewen Leslie play a couple who travel from Scotland to Melbourne to win custody of their stepchildren, but lose their baby son under suspicious circumstances during a roadside stop.
I didn’t know it then but that’s when the freak show began, two faces, two Joanna’s @Jenna_Coleman_ in The Cry, this Sunday at 9pm #TheCry pic.twitter.com/VGDGyMjfRz
- The Cry (@thecrybbc) September 25, 2018
In the latest look, the motives of Coleman's Joanna come into question when she admits to having two faces - that of the desperate mum for the public and, well, something else for behind closed doors.
"Of all the things that could happen to a person, there's few things that could be worse," she says. "Can you think of any? There are none.
"And the whole world, they want to look at someone who that has happened to. Everyone just wants to look at you. Everyone wants to judge you, stare at you. Look for clues, so maybe it won't happen to them."
Coleman has described The Cry as one of the most challenging roles of her career, so much so that she initially wondered if she'd been miscast.
"I'm not a mother! I really kind of hit myself over the head with it," she remembered. "I felt there was obviously something I wouldn't be able to capture. It was something so… well, primal that I haven't literally experienced. And I've really struggled with that."
The Cry premieres on BBC One on Sunday (September 30) at 9pm.
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