We’ve obviously honoured the bathtub scene, but we’ve changed it just slightly so that it feels like Sophie has a little more time after jail to come around to being in a sexy place with Benedict. The biggest change I would say to the ending is that in the book, it’s all one big set piece where Benedict and Violet show up to the jail and basically save Sophie. Posy’s there and admits that she is the one who stole the shoe clips, which, in the case of the book, is a kind lie.
We decided to step it out into two parts to allow Benedict and Violet to essentially save Sophie from the jail cell, but we didn’t want it to feel like Sophie was being saved by everyone else. It was really important to create a divide, where, in order for Sophie to fully get saved, she had to save herself. So giving Sophie the idea to go looking at the will and to do the brave thing of sneaking over there and uncovering it and then getting to confront Araminta herself felt like an important change for the screen.
You mentioned Violet, and I want to talk about her relationship with Marcus. I really enjoyed them together, but I always felt her hesitation, and it just moved so fast. Why did you want to have them part ways?
In the eight books, Violet doesn’t really date, or she certainly never remarries. I love Daniel Francis, I love the Marcus Anderson character, and I love their chemistry together, but it felt too soon for Violet. I know she hasn’t dated in forever, but for her to get into a relationship with the first guy she dated didn’t really feel right. She also hasn’t finished seeing all of her children out of the house and has a lot of self-exploration to do still, which we touched on a bit with chats about her youth. So, we’ll see some more of that going forward.
Will Marcus be back for season five?
I can’t say. Yeah…I can’t say.
Fair enough. Let’s move on to Lady Whistledown because the reveal that someone new is taking over threw me for a loop. It’s not in the books, so what excites you about telling this story?
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