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‘Towards Zero’ Britbox Towards Zero is the latest Agatha Christie’s novel to be adapted as a miniseries and you can now stream it on Britbox. Created by Rachel Bennette and directed by Sam Yates, Towards Zero stars legendary actress Anjelica Huston, Matthew Rhys, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ella Lily Hyland, Anjana Vasan and Mimi Keene. The story takes place in England, in 1936. British tennis star Nevile Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) who just went through a scandalous divorce, decides to spend the summer with his ex-wife and his new fiancée at Gull’s Point, his childhood home. There, Nevile’s aunt, Lady Tressilian (Angelica Huston) makes it a point to settle some unfinished businesses with her nephew and the rest of her guests (whether they were welcome in the house, or not.) Tensions keep growing as secrets and lies unfold, which will lead to a tragic murder. I spoke with the stars of the three-part drama, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Ella Lily Hyland about this new Agatha Christie’s adaptation. I asked them if they felt like reading the book before reading the script would generally be helpful in the understanding of their characters. Jackson-Cohen said, “It’s quite an interesting thing with an adaptation because sometimes, the book can be incredibly useful, sometimes it can put ideas in your head that are not necessarily in the adaptation. So I always start reading the book and then decide if it’s actually useful to continue.” He added: “But for the script, the adaptation that we were sent, they changed a lot of things when they were filming, there were a lot of rewrites coming in, so by the time we started filming, we knew where the story went but not exactly how they were gonna get to that point. And with a story like this one, everything is sort…

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