Entertainment Weekly - 11.2019

want to make him look like his soul, because
his soul is pretty wretched. But on the out-
side, he’s okay. I wanted the audience to say
to themselves, ‘Why is this person like this?’ ”
Joining Pearce in the miniseries is
The Favourite’s Joe Alwyn as Scrooge’s poor,
put-upon clerk Bob Cratchit; This Is
England’s Stephen Graham as the miser’s
dead business partner, Jacob Marley; Peaky
Blinders’ Charlotte Riley as Scrooge’s
sister Lottie; and Pennyworth’s Jason Fle-
myng as the Ghost of Christmas Future
(he replaced an ailing Rutger Hauer, who
died July 19). And while there has always
been a rather chilling aspect to the Charles
Dickens classic, this version could defi-
nitely have you blurting blimey! by the time
Scrooge encounters his first ghost. “What
makes this version original is the depth
that it mines,” explains Pearce, who broke
out with The Adventures of Priscilla,
Queen of the Desert in 1994 and starred as
an adviser to Queen Elizabeth in last
year’s Mary Queen of Scots. “Steven tries
to be faithful to the original but digs deeper
and explores the past that Scrooge has
experienced, to a level that will perhaps
make audiences more uncomfortable
than they were while watching [previous
iterations of ] A Christmas Carol.” Well, God
bless us, every one. —Lynette Rice

A WHOLE

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First Take

↑ Remmie Milner, Vinette Robinson, and Joe Alwyn

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