during WWII.Ī part of her own childhood is also something that McKenzie drew on for the role. McKenzie’s preparation also included meeting an epilepsy nurse as déjà vu is one of the symptoms of epilepsy, and consulting with her 95-year-old grandmother who was in the U.K. Crowley also gave her books to read on The Blitz, the German aerial campaign against Britain during WWII, and on children with past lives, as both were directly relevant to the character of Ursula in the series. McKenzie too was drawn to the script and immediately read the book as well, in order to understand that world better.
There’s a timelessness to her face – she at times looks almost like a Victorian doll. “If she had said to me for real, that she had had other life experiences, I would believe her, because I think there’s something slightly ethereal about her. “There’s something slightly otherworldly about her… she has a faraway look in her eyes,” Crowley tells Variety about McKenzie. The director was taken with McKenzie’s “wonderful” performance in “Jojo Rabbit.” Crowley was drawn to the story immediately and the next stage was casting the central character of Ursula. Though he owned a copy of the novel, Crowley hadn’t read it and his first introduction to the material was the script for the first two episodes by Doran, who he’d met previously and had made an unofficial promise to work together at some point.
It’s got a big, philosophical humanity about it.” There was another long wait for Doran to say yes. “The novel has an extraordinary conceit, but in the end, it’s about how we live a good life. “She has an extraordinary ability to be both incredibly clever, witty, and very humane,” Ross tells Variety about Doran.
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Ross was a fan of Doran’s plays and had also read the script of her 1945-set Channel 4 series “Traitors.” Ross and Howell were looking for someone with “a strong wit and energy in their voice” and “supreme intelligence about the material” and Doran fit the bill. Howell and Ross took meetings with Atkinson and kept asking her about the option until it became available 18 months later. When Howell and Ross set up House in 2016, Atkinson’s novel was on top of the list of projects they wanted to make, but the option was held elsewhere. “Life After Life” is adapted by eminent playwright and screenwriter Bash Doran (“Kin,” “Boardwalk Empire”) and directed by John Crowley, BAFTA winner for “Brooklyn” and “Boy A.” The cast also includes Sian Clifford (“Fleabag”), James McArdle (“Mare of Easttown”) and Sean Delaney (“Killing Eve”). Ursula navigates her way through an era spanning two world wars, an encounter with Hitler and major life events.Īt just 21, Thomasin McKenzie, who plays Ursula, already has a list of impressive credits including “Leave No Trace,” “Jojo Rabbit” and “Last Night in Soho.” The four-part series is produced by BBC Studios’ House Productions, run by co-CEOs Juliette Howell, Emmy and RTS nominee for “Brexit: The Uncivil War,” and Tessa Ross, BAFTA winner for outstanding British contribution to cinema, whose credits include “Billy Elliott,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Last King of Scotland,” “Ex Machina” and “Room.” She finds herself time and again, living and dying in different circumstances only to be reborn into a new, alternative iteration of life once more. On that same night in 1910, Ursula is born and survives.
The story centers on Ursula Todd who dies one night in 1910 before she can draw her first breath. Kate Atkinson’s bestselling 2013 novel “ Life After Life” has been brought to vivid life as a four-part BBC series by a heavyweight team.
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