Olivia Colman has taken on the role of the creepy Miss Havisham in the BBC’s version of Great Expectations.
In the upcoming series of Charles Dickens’ classic novel, The Crown star will join Fionn Whitehead and Shalom Brune-Franklin as Pip and Estella, respectively.
The classic, first published in weekly chapters in 1860, depicts an orphan named Pip who suddenly inherits a vast inheritance and is forced to navigate between his newfound prosperity and Victorian England’s poverty.
Pip encounters Miss Havisham and Estella along the journey, who introduce him to a dark world of possibilities.
‘Under the huge demands put on him, Pip will have to work out the cost of this new world and if it will actually make him the man he aspires to be,’ according to the synopsis.
Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, Rudi Dharmalingam, and Matt Berry will appear in the six-part series alongside Olivia and Fionn.


Miss Havisham warns Pip in the trailer, ‘When I was young, I was blinded by love; now gaze on what remains of me.’
Olivia’s Miss Havisham, dressed in her fated wedding gown and hidden in the darkness of her devastated home, interviews Pip before seeing him grow.
The video then switches to an adolescent Pip becoming closer to Estella, from playing games together as kids to learning ballroom dance moves in each other’s arms.
‘Innocent, moments before the great corruption,’ Miss Havisham’s voice hair-rising voice interrupts.
As Pip falls in love with Estella, he is exposed to the world around them, and he is forced to confront violence, poverty, and everything he had previously avoided.
Meanwhile, he must woo Estella, who has been educated not to love men, while she remains Miss Havisham’s ‘weapon of love’ and ‘prized creation’.
Great Expectations will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer later this year.