PRODUCTIONS - JEKYLL & HYDE
Synopsis
Adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic horror novel, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was co produced by Clerkenwell Films with Working Title Television for Bravo and Universal TV, aired in the USA over Halloween 2002 and has been sold around the world. Filmed at the Lietuva Film Studios in Vilnius, this was the first British drama production to be made in Lithuania.
Starring John Hannah in the dual role of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and David Warner as Sir Danvers Carew, this chiller continues to terrify and shock an audience over a century after the novel was first published.
Running Time: 2 Hours
Cast
Dr Henry Jekyll / Mr Edward Hyde
John Hannah
Sir Danvers Carew
David Warner
Mabel Mercer
Kellie Shirley
Sarah Carew
Elodie Kendall
John Utterson
Gerard Horan
Production Credits
Producer
Murray Ferguson
Director
Maurice Phillips
Writer
Martyn Edward Hesford
A Clerkenwell Films and Working Title Television Co-Production
Distributor Universal
Interviews
John Hannah Interview
“The whole story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde strikes me as very biographical. We are all capable of wonderful acts and abominable acts, we still make the same mistakes and sometimes we all want to stand in a room and scream. So in a way, the monster is within us.
Hyde is a person who is totally unbound by any rules or codes of society. We all have those feelings but we don’t act on them. The drug he takes is the method he uses to feel in touch with the baser elements of himself.
It’s a huge stretch as an actor to play good and evil every day. My head is full of conflicts being on both sides of this strange man. Jekyll sometimes responds to Hyde, so I have to rehearse a scene and then contradict myself. It’s a bit like building a bridge from both ends and I’ve had to keep very focussed.
For me, playing Hyde is easier than playing Jekyll, at least on a physical level. Jekyll behaves in a very uptight Victorian way. That kind of rigidity is good for the character, but not for me. Whereas with Hyde, it’s much more fun. ”
