Olivia Colman was undoubtedly the stand out star of ITV’s smash hit drama Broadchurch which came to an end this week. And now with the killer’s identity finally out in the open, the actress has revealed just how “awful” if was to learn who was behind Danny Latimer’s murder.
Colman played police detective Ellie Miller in the crime series which followed a seaside community in the aftermath of the murder of a young boy. In Monday night’s explosive finale, Olivia’s character discovered the killer was her nice as pie husband Joe, with the actress confessing it was incredibly hard to deal with the plot twist.
“Most people, I think, kind of had an inkling as they were watching, ‘he’s too nice, we haven’t heard about him’ but it didn’t really matter that you’d made that leap, by the time it ended it was a whydoneit, howdoneit”, Olivia tells Digital Spy, “but finding out it was him was awful, he was lovely. I was really sad!”
Olivia Colman was undoubtedly the stand out star of ITV’s smash hit drama Broadchurch which came to an end this week. And now with the killer’s identity finally out in the open, the actress has revealed just how “awful” if was to learn who was behind Danny Latimer’s murder.
Colman played police detective Ellie Miller in the crime series which followed a seaside community in the aftermath of the murder of a young boy. In Monday night’s explosive finale, Olivia’s character discovered the killer was her nice as pie husband Joe, with the actress confessing it was incredibly hard to deal with the plot twist.
“Most people, I think, kind of had an inkling as they were watching, ‘he’s too nice, we haven’t heard about him’ but it didn’t really matter that you’d made that leap, by the time it ended it was a whydoneit, howdoneit”, Olivia tells Digital Spy, “but finding out it was him was awful, he was lovely. I was really sad!”
