Landscapers star Olivia Colman reveals bizarre real life murder case behind new Sky drama
Olivia Colman portrays a real life murderer in new Sky TV drama Landscapers, penned by her own husband Ed Sinclair.
The Oscar award winner will return to the small screen to star alongside Harry Potter actor David Thewlis as they take on the respective roles of real-life Nottingham couple Susan and Christopher Edwards, who covered up her parents' deaths for 15 years.
The pair buried the bodies of Patricia Wycherley, 63, and her 85-year-old husband William in a garden and stole £300,000 which funded a bizarre fantasy obsession with Hollywood memorabilia.
But it's Colman's benign looking character Susan, who was abused by her father as a little girl, whose delusional obsessions are brought to life in the drama which sets the series apart from typical crime dramas.
Ahead of the show's launch this week, Colman told Sky News : "We find out, through the programme, she faced abuse at the hands of her father as a little girl, and I think it's her escapism to sort of imagine men [can be] heroic and that she finally meets her knight in shining armour."
And ironically by bringing the true-events into a dramatised TV form, the protagonist Susan, who together with Christopher were jailed in 2014, will see her fantasies come to life.
