He grows increasingly fond of Estella but neglects to maintain contact with his family. Pip travels to London where he becomes a gentleman.He assumes that this has come from Miss Havisham. After working as a blacksmith's apprentice for a number of years, Pip grows up and is one day informed that he has come into a great deal of money.Pip goes to Satis House where he meets the eccentric Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella.The young Pip meets and assists the escaped convict Magwitch on the marshes near his home where he lives with his sister and Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith.I’ve had such an amazing time working with her. When you see Olivia done up as Miss Havisham she is such an intimidating character, completely opposite to Olivia in real life, who is unbelievably lovely, kind and hilarious. So, he bears her so that he can get as much information out of her, but is also really wary of her. He wants to learn from her and recognises that she is his only way into a world that he otherwise wouldn’t have access to. Whitehead said: “Pip is pretty scared of Miss Havisham at first. There were quite a few changes and I found it quite gripping.”
Quite a few bottom slapping moments, which I did not recall from the original Dickens. What I tried to do was imagine if Dickens was writing the story now and had the freedom to go to those darker places, what would he do? If he had been liberated to write the things that were going on that he wasn’t allowed to write about.”Ĭolman added: “The first time I read Steven Knight’s script, I thought it was much darker than what I had remembered from school. You couldn’t write about certain things in Dickens’ time: certain elements of sexuality, crime, disobedience against the crown and state. “He was never banging the drum, he was just saying ‘this is what’s going on’ and people could draw their own conclusions. What I didn’t want to do – and I think Dickens never tried to do – was make something specifically political,” Knight told the BBC. They won’t be just of the time, they will be about the human condition. “I think that with any great writer like Dickens, the issues and the subjects that he deals with will always be timeless. “Great Expectations” is produced by FX Productions in association with the BBC, Scott Free and Hardy Son & Baker.
Brady Hood and Samira Radsi serve as directors.
Knight serves as writer, and also executive producer alongside Tom Hardy, Ridley Scott, Dean Baker, David W. Fionn Whitehead stars as Pip, leading a cast featuring Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, Laurie Ogden, Rudi Dharmalingam, Tom Sweet, Chloe Lea and Matt Berry.
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