Ruth Wilson has said she “couldn’t say no” to playing Mrs Coulter in His Dark Materials because the character was described as a “cesspit of moral filth”.
His Dark Materials also stars Lin-Manuel Miranda, James McAvoy, David Suchet and James Cosmo.
When Wilson was offered the part, she told The Times, she read the description of Mrs Coulter who is “described as the mother of all evil and the cesspit of moral filth”.
The actor plays the villain in the forthcoming BBC and HBO adaptation of the Philip Pullman trilogy.