Prime Video’s revenge thriller Wilderness, starring Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen lands on September fifteenth.
With only a week to go till Wilderness launches, Prime Video have dropped a full trailer for the present. A psychological thriller, it stars Jenna Coleman as Liv – a wronged spouse who plans revenge on her untrue husband.
The sequence relies on the novel by B.E. Jones and Prime Video describes it as a “twisted love story, the place a dream vacation and a supposedly “happily-ever-after” shortly flip right into a dwelling nightmare.”
Right here’s the synopsis for Wilderness:
Liv and Will appear to have all of it. A rock-solid marriage. A glamorous new life in New York. Till Liv learns concerning the affair.
Enter the American street journey she’s fantasised about. For Will, it’s an opportunity to make amends. For Liv, it’s a really totally different prospect – a panorama the place accidents occur on a regular basis.
The right place to get revenge.
With Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen, the present additionally stars Ashley Benson and Eric Balfour, with Talia Balsam, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Jonathan Keltz, Claire Rushbrook and Morgana Van Peebles.
Marnie Dickens writes the present, based mostly on B.E. Jones’ novel. The director is So Yong Kim (Lovesong), who additionally government produces with Elizabeth Kilgarriff. Wilderness comes from Firebird Footage. The drama has additionally bagged a high-profile theme tune, courtesy of Taylor Swift!
Forward of the launch, each Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen have been talking concerning the present, with all quotes gathered forward of the present SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Jenna Coleman describes the present:
“Wilderness is a really huge story. There’s an enormous arc. In abstract, it’s a couple of lady who finds out that her husband is dishonest on her, and she or he begins to plot methods and means by which to kill him so she will’t be deserted…and to hunt revenge or justice. However what ensues is a really totally different chain of occasions, nearly like a curler coaster or an acid journey or a hallucinogenic, mad, trippy, wonky, sudden journey for a personality or any individual to go on. It’s like a domino impact that’s uncontrollable and unstoppable and the chain of occasions ensures one other chain of occasions and so forth. It’s very heightened but additionally grounded in an emotional and truthful expertise.”
She additionally discusses her character:
“Liv Taylor is a girl from Wales. We meet her at a degree in her life the place she’s skilled some type of imposter syndrome. She’s a bit uncertain of who she is and a bit uncertain of herself. Her relationship with Will has some co-dependence, and the boundaries are fairly blurred. By her personal insecurities, self-doubt, and lack of self-worth, she places a whole lot of herself into Will and her relationship with him. I believe she’s been very self-protective in her life till she met Will. I believe a whole lot of it has been about not anticipating an excessive amount of on the earth. It’s a self-preservation tactic. She’s very witty and dry and makes use of humour as a defence weapon.”
Oliver Jackson-Cohen talks about Will:
“Will is a down-the-middle English boarding faculty sort who’s come from a really well-to-do household, however the household unit is sort of damaged. He strikes to New York together with his spouse Liv to begin a brand new life as a result of he will get this unbelievable new job the place he’s Head of Occasions at a lodge chain. Will is, you already know…he’s a great time, and he takes benefit of the nice time that he has.”
He additionally considers what audiences will take pleasure in about Wilderness:
“I believe audiences are going to like the joys trip of the entire present. It by no means takes you the place you suppose it’s going to go. That’s a testomony to Marnie [Dickens] and the genius of her writing. However it’s deeply worrying and shifting and thrilling and humorous and in addition devastating. So, we received all of it youngsters. However I believe and hope that individuals are excited to see the place the present goes. As a result of the place we start and the place we finish are like two completely totally different exhibits. And it’s pushed by Liv and the viewers experiencing the present by means of her eyes. And Jenna is phenomenal. So, I’m excited for individuals to see it.”
Wilderness lands at Prime Video on fifteenth September, 2023 and has six episodes.