‘The Essex Serpent’ Sneak Peek: Did a Child’s Spell Conjure the Creature Terrifying the Town? (Exclusive Video)
thewrap.com“The Essex Serpent” kicked off last week with a two episode debut, following the Victorian Era-set story of Claire Danes’ Cora Seaborne, who moves to the English countryside only to find there is something in the waters there.The townspeople are convinced a creature swims in their murky waters, despite the protestations of Will Ransome (Tom Hiddleston), the local pastor.
In TheWrap’s exclusive sneak peek from Episode 3, Frank Dillane’s character, Dr. Luke Garrett, makes a visit to Essex to see his friend Cora, where he encounters a girl who thinks she may be the reason horrific things are happening in the community.
And it’s down to Dr. Garrett to try and unravel the mystery.Discussing his character Luke, Dillane told TheWrap he worked to keep his portrayal authentic to the time when doctors weren’t highly paid, well respected individuals.“I guess the main thing that I wanted to keep in mind when portraying Luke was that this idea of surgeons being very well educated and monied people back in those days was not necessarily true,” he said. “That just prior to this, a lot of surgeons were just people like butchers and hair dressers.
Anyone with a knife, really, could do surgery. And also, to put it in context, there was a time just previous to this – about 50 years or something – where the bug catcher in the hospital was paid more than the surgeon.
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