“Beth’s totally infatuated with him,” Skelly told the Daily Mail, of Dornan’s character. “She’s very sheltered, she’s lived quite a privileged life. But in Liam she sees this romanticism and perhaps she doesn’t grasp how brutal it can be.”

Though Dornan and co-star Matthew Rhys, who plays Beth’s stepfather Billy are undeniably the bigger stars, the emotional weight of Death and Nightingales is squarely on Beth’s (and Skelly’s) shoulders. “At heart, it’s a love story, which occurs across a religious and class divide,” Cubitt told the Guardian. “But it’s also a story of gender, of Beth and her struggles to extricate herself from a terrible situation… and whether she can take control of her destiny.”

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