She’s the star of the BBC’s flagship New Year drama about ruthless Russian gangsters exiled in Britain. Juliet Rylance talks about blind love, working with her stepdad Mark – and how she helped bring peace to two billion people
For far too long, mob dramas have focused almost entirely on the Italian mafia, from The Sopranos right back to The Godfather. What has not been adequately explored is the rise of their Russian counterparts. True, TV has teemed in recent years with Russian baddie stereotypes, most notably Galina “Red” Reznikov in Orange Is the New Black, but they’ve tended to be racist creations, psychopaths-by-numbers, generally played by non-Russians.
Juliet Rylance is hoping the new BBC drama series she is starring in can change all that. In McMafia, freely adapted from Misha Glenny’s mordant bestselling analysis of the new globalised world of organised crime, she plays Rebecca Harper, a woman who is waking up to the fact that Alex Goodman, the love of her life, may be losing his idealistic soul to his crime family’s values, turning into the sort of thug who gets his goons to whack foes by poisoning them with polonium. This, she realises, would leave her little more than a mobster’s moll.
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