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It’s grunge expectations as Estella gets ‘weird’

SHALOM Brune-Franklin, so good in The Tourist and Line Of Duty, stars as Estella in the BBC’s controversial new adaptation of Great Expectations, which starts on Sunday.

Her co-star Olivia Colman was given a towering white wig and horrifying yellow teeth as the opium-addicted Miss Havisham, and Shalom likewise looks a tad mouse-nibbled around the edges, as the tragic spinster’s beautiful ward.

Of her character, Shalom said: ‘I guess I would describe her style as a weird rotting grunge princess. There were Galliano references, Vivienne Westwood references. So, they were trying to go for something that was a bit more grungy, not quite traditional.’

Raised in Hertfordshire, BruneFranklin moved to Australia with her family aged 14, but has returned permanently to the UK after snapping up a lease on a flat in North-West London.

Her next role will be playing an attendant to a royal family in Dune: The Sisterhood, a TV spinoff from the 1984 and 2021 films, themselves versions of the book Dune by Frank Herbert.

She says that after getting the role, ‘I turned the volume up as high as my TV would allow, and watched the films in complete darkness. It’s overwhelming going into that Dune-iverse because it’s so big, and there is so much to wrap your head around, but the films are masterpieces.’

Alison Boshof

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