First look at Olivia Colman’s eerie Miss Havisham revealed for BBC’s Great Expectations and she looks hauntingly perfect

Olivia takes on the long-lasting Charles Dickens position (Image: BBC/FX Networks/Miya Mizuno)

There’s been no scarcity of actresses who’ve performed Miss Havisham in Nice Expectations through the years, from Gillian Anderson to Helena Bonham Carter.

Oscar winner Olivia Colman is now the newest to tackle the position of the character created by Charles Dickens in an upcoming BBC adaptation – and if the primary look is something to go by, she’s captured the essence of the eerie spinster to a tee.

The Favorite star has been revealed in character in two newly-released footage, exhibiting her appearing reverse Pip actor Fionn Whitehead and Estella actress Shalom Brune-Franklin.

Within the photograph of Olivia and Fionn, Miss Havisham is holding Pip by the chin, her hair turned gray and her wedding ceremony veil nonetheless adorned on her head after she was jilted on the altar years beforehand.

Miss Havisham gazes instantly at Pip’s face, as he appears to be like again at her, seemingly bemused by the girl standing earlier than him in her wedding ceremony robe.

Within the second picture, Miss Havisham is standing up in an ornate, cobwebbed room, leaning on her strolling stick to maintain her upright whereas a shocked or fatigued expression dawns on her face.

Miss Havisham appraises the younger Pip (Image: BBC/FX Networks/Miya Mizuno)

Line of Responsibility’s Shalom Brune-Franklin performs Miss Havisham’s adopted daughter Estella (Image: BBC/FX Networks/Miya Mizuno)

Estella is sitting down close by, seemingly unperturbed by her companion as she reads one thing on a chunk of parchment.

Within the novel Nice Expectations, which was first revealed between 1860 and 1861 in serialised type, Miss Havisham welcomes Pip into her dwelling as a companion, to affix her and her adopted daughter Estella.

Filming on the restricted sequence is at present underway (Image: David M. Benett/Getty Pictures)

Whereas Pip falls in love with Estella, Estella is taught from a younger age by Miss Havisham to not love males, which ends up in there being a roadblock of their relationship.

The newest adaptation of the story, by the BBC and FX, shall be a six-part restricted sequence.

Fionn Whitehead performed the lead position in Dunkirk (Image: Jim Spellman/WireImage)

Shalom’s Line of Responsibility character Chloë is a fan favorite (Image: BBC/World Productions/Steffan Hill)

The solid additionally boasts actors together with Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, Rudi Dharmalingam and Matt Berry.

Fionn beforehand starred in Dunkirk and Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, incomes a nomination for the Empire Award for Finest Male Newcomer for the previous.

Shalom has starred in a wide range of dramas together with Our Woman, Physician Physician and Battle of the Worlds, in addition to The Vacationer alongside Jamie Dornan and Line of Responsibility as DC Chloë Bishop.