Like most celebrity cinematic team-ups, the decision to try a pairing of Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch onscreen was hatched over lunch.
“Ben and I had been saying for years, ‘I wish we could work together.’ Then we said it in front of some proper grown-ups at the Venice Film Festival,” Colman recalls in a Zoom interview alongside Cumberbatch.
Although they are both featured players in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe ( Cumberbatch plays Doctor Strange while Colman was Special Agent Sonya Falsworth in Secret Invasion ), it was Tony McNamara, who penned the screenplay for Colman’s Oscar-winning turn as Queen Anne in 2018’s , and Searchlight’s Tony Greenbaum who found the right project for them both. After they got wind of their desire to work with one another, they thought it wou