Jenna Coleman: 'My new series Wilderness is like a hallucinogenic trip'
ok.co.ukJenna Coleman loves the challenge of a gripping drama – she’s played a distraught mother in The Cry, the girlfriend of a serial killer in The Serpent, and the formidable monarch in Victoria .
Now, in new Prime Video drama Wilderness , Jenna takes on the role of Liv Taylor – a woman who seems to have it all, until a shocking discovery turns her life upside down. “Wilderness is a very big story,” begins Jenna. “It’s about a woman who finds out her husband is cheating on her, and she begins to plot ways and means in which to kill him. “But what ensues is a very different chain of events, almost like a roller-coaster or an acid trip.
It’s a hallucinogenic, mad, trippy, wonky, unexpected journey for a character or any person to go on. It’s like a domino effect that’s uncontrollable and unstoppable.” The six-part series sees Liv and her husband Will (played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen) go on an epic road trip around the States.
For Will, it’s a chance to make amends. For Liv, it’s the perfect place to get revenge. And for the Brit members of the cast, that meant a trip around the USA. “Filming was back-to-back, but the locations we got to shoot at were great,” she says. “Like the Bellagio hotel and down the Strip in Las Vegas.
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