Natascha McElhone: Playing Elizabeth Hopkins | Saints & Strangers

Elizabeth is a stranger she’s not a
program should even come for religious
reasons and this is indicative of the
age and the era 1620s uh elizabeth is
introduced and is in the story largely
because of her husband did become Steven
Hopkins she comes with him he’s a
widower so this is his second marriage
she’s a step mother of his two children
from his previous relationship and she
has a baby on the boat on the way over I
think it’s the only baby that was born
on the Mayflower and survived
she is very resistant to the move and
can’t really see the benefit you at
least consider it then for your wife and
for your infant child
we different this time if you were to go
back to movement but again true to those
times she obeys her husband and his
wishes her command there’s only four
women who’s survived the first winter
raise students and who plays Hopkins
because we suppose started shooting on
the same day and we were establishing
our characters at the same time he was
incredibly collaborative and we decided
to have a you know relationship that was
based actually not on convenience but on
unreal love and sort of you know passion
and there would be a fiery element to it
even if that ends up being a back story
it kind of particularly for me gives
some sort of scaffolding and context for
the reason why I’m here