Great Expectations: Olivia Colman UNRECOGNISABLE with white hair

Great Expectations FIRST LOOK: Olivia Colman looks UNRECOGNISABLE with white hair and yellow teeth as she transforms into Miss Havisham for BBC adaptation trailer

Olivia Colman looks unrecognisable with white hair and yellow teeth in the first teaser trailer for BBC’s upcoming adaptation of Great Expectations.

The actress, 49, who plays Miss Havisham in the Charles Dickens classic, welcomes a young Pip (Tom Sweet) to Satis House for the first time in the footage.

She tells the aspiring gentleman, later played by Fionn Whitehead, ‘Let me see you… what a prize creature we have fished from the river.’

Olivia’s costume also includes an elaborate dead floral headpiece and a veil, along with a collection of silver jewellery and a grimy wedding dress.

Produced by FX Productions in association with the BBC, Scott Free and Hardy Son & Baker, Great Expectations is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life. 

Who’s that? Olivia Colman looks unrecognisable with white hair and yellow teeth in the first teaser trailer for BBC’s upcoming adaptation of Great Expectations

A twist of fate soon introduces him to the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham and Estella (Shalom Brune-Franklin), showing him a dark world of possibilities

Under the great expectations placed upon him, Pip will have to work out the cost of this new world and whether it will truly make him the man he wishes to be.

Great Expectations will also star Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Laurie Ogden, Matt Berry, Trystan Gravelle and Rudi Dharmalingam.

Steven Knight has written and executive produced Great Expectations alongside Tom Hardy, Ridley Scott, Dean Baker, David W. Zucker, Kate Crowe and Tommy Bulfin for the BBC – the team behind FX’s A Christmas Carol – with Brady Hood and Samira Radsi as directors.

Great Expectations is the second Dickens adaptation penned by Steven, following the hit limited series A Christmas Carol.

Author Charles first released the work in a series of weekly chapters beginning in December 1860, before it was subsequently published as a novel.

His famous novel follows the story of Pip, who lives with his sister Mrs Joe Gargery and her blacksmith husband Joe.

The bitter Miss Havisham engineers a meeting between the young Pip and Estella with a view to having him fall in love with her so she can break his heart. 

New role: The actress, 49, who plays Miss Havisham in the Charles Dickens classic, welcomes a young Pip to Satis House for the first time in the footage

Wow! Olivia’s costume also includes an elaborate dead floral headpiece and a veil, along with a collection of silver jewellery and a grimy wedding dress

Line of Duty actress Shalom Brune-Franklin, 28, plays the aloof and enigmatic Estella, who becomes Pip’s obsession.

Steven adapted Dickens’ A Christmas Carol for the BBC in 2019, starring Guy Pearce as Scrooge.

There have been many adaptations of the classic novel over the years, both on the big and small screen.

War and Peace actress Tuppence Middleton, 35, played the character as a younger woman in the BBC’s 2016 serialisation, Dickensian.

In-character: She tells the aspiring gentleman, later played by Fionn Whitehead, ‘Let me see you… what a prize creature we have fished from the river’

Talented: Great Expectations is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life (Tom Sweet is pictured as a young Pip)

Helena Bonham Carter, 56, portrayed Miss Havisham in Mike Newell’s 2012 film adaptation, co-starring Jeremy Irvine as Pip and Ralph Fiennes as Abel Magwitch.

Gillian Anderon, 54, was a rather more glamorous and youthful incarnation of the character a year earlier in a BBC mini-series starring Douglas Booth and Vanessa Kirby.

In 1999 Charlotte Rampling, 77, played the role opposite Ioan Gruffudd’s Pip while Anne Bancroft played a modernised version of the character in Alfonso Cuarón’s 1998 film version starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke.

Earlier versions include Jean Simmons’ portrayal in an 1989 mini-series, having previously played Estella in David Lean’s 1946 film opposite Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham.

Miss Marple actress Joan Hickson played the role in 1981 while Margaret Leighton took on the part in 1974.

One of the earliest screen portrayals of Miss Havisham was Florence Reed in the 1934 film.

Miss Havisham is usually portrayed as an older woman but is in her mid-30s at the beginning of Dickens’ novel.

Again? The broadcaster had previously produced a three-part drama titled of the same name which was written by Sarah Phelps in 2011 (Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham)

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