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Forbes
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Oliver Jackson-Cohen And Ella Lily Hyland On Agatha Christie's ‘Towards Zero' and The Success Of Whodunit Mysteries
'Towards Zero' Britbox Towards Zero is the latest Agatha Christie's novel to be adapted as a miniseries and you can now stream it on Britbox. Created by Rachel Bennette and directed by Sam Yates, Towards Zero stars legendary actress Anjelica Huston, Matthew Rhys, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ella Lily Hyland, Anjana Vasan and Mimi Keene. The story takes place in England, in 1936. British tennis star Nevile Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) who just went through a scandalous divorce, decides to spend the summer with his ex-wife and his new fiancée at Gull's Point, his childhood home. There, Nevile's aunt, Lady Tressilian (Angelica Huston) makes it a point to settle some unfinished businesses with her nephew and the rest of her guests (whether they were welcome in the house, or not.) Tensions keep growing as secrets and lies unfold, which will lead to a tragic murder. I spoke with the stars of the three-part drama, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Ella Lily Hyland about this new Agatha Christie's adaptation. I asked them if they felt like reading the book before reading the script would generally be helpful in the understanding of their characters. Jackson-Cohen said, 'It's quite an interesting thing with an adaptation because sometimes, the book can be incredibly useful, sometimes it can put ideas in your head that are not necessarily in the adaptation. So I always start reading the book and then decide if it's actually useful to continue.' He added: 'But for the script, the adaptation that we were sent, they changed a lot of things when they were filming, there were a lot of rewrites coming in, so by the time we started filming, we knew where the story went but not exactly how they were gonna get to that point. And with a story like this one, everything is sort of intricate you kind of just had to buckle in and see where they are going to take it. But the payoff and how you get to the pay off in the end is a fascinating journey.' Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Ella Lily Hyland Britbox-JAMES PARDON For the two actors, the secret of a well-crafted murder mystery resides in the filming and the editing process and they explained that it can take the audience on a complete different trajectory. Jackson-Cohen said, 'It's so interesting with a whodunnit, because so much of it is in the construction of the thing and in the editing, you know? Who you linger on, for how long, and they're constantly telling the audience what they should think or feel. So it's fascinating to see where other people get led and what other people think or assume.' Hyland added: 'There's such a question of morals as well, it's all really about desire, power and relationships. So something that someone believe is morally wrong, it might lead them to think about a culprit.' These past few years, whodunits have been on the rise with multiple adaptations of Hercule Poirot's investigations for the big screen and the adaptation of many other Agatha Christie's novels, such as Why Didn't They Ask Evans? or Ordeal by Innocence for the small screen. With the success of the series of movies Knives Out or the highly popular TV show Only Murders in the Building, it is safe to say that whodunits have a singular way to draw the audience in. Jackson-Cohen explained, 'Everyone has a motif and a reason, that's the exciting part of watching it and it is why whodunit are successful and beloved, because you're an active part, you're involved in the show, as a viewer. There's something delicious about that, the payoff of it.' I asked Hyland if she could detect the clues while reading the script, or if the director and writer were holding back these little indications that might help the audience guess who the murderer is. Hyland said, 'It was very cleverly done by Sam because it might be depicted in an ambivalent kind of way, but he would give you a really clear motive that made sense for your character at that time.' She added: 'Everyone has a killer instinct that comes out in many different ways. So it's probably in the way it's shot as well. But it's interesting sometimes when you make things obvious and the audience is very clever and will be like 'Oh they're making hit too obvious.''
BBC News
04-04-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Lincoln council offered support to reopen leisure centres
A number of organisations have shown an interest in helping to reopen two leisure centres which closed suddenly on Wednesday, a council has and Birchwood leisure centres, in Lincoln, shut their doors after Active Nation, the charity that ran them, ceased of Lincoln Council, which owns the buildings, said it was searching for an interim provider, but admitted it could take weeks or months to reopen Ord, of the social enterprise GLL, which runs leisure centres in neighbouring North Kesteven, said he was "open-minded" about the possibility of taking over in Lincoln. Mr Ord said GLL, which operates more than 250 leisure centres in partnership with local authorities around the country, had contacted the council to offer support."We've got staff on the ground here, we are based around the corner from the centres, so if the conversations can be had, we will absolutely have those conversations with them," he added.'We are the largest social enterprise leisure provider out there, so we will be on hand if we can help them and make it work."The One NK sports complex in North Hykeham, which is operated by GLL, has extended opening hours to help those affected by the Walters, a senior officer at the council with responsibility for communities, said he had been approached by a number of providers "wanting to come and talk to me".But he warned it would take time to "unpick" the situation."We are working as fast as we can to try and get some facilities back, but we need a few days to understand how we can do that," he Nation, a charity based in Warwickshire, blamed "the ongoing utility crisis and the challenges it has created" for the decision to cease council said it had offered the charity a support package of almost half a million pounds over two years, with conditions attached, but this had not been taken up. Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
