Luther: The Falling Sun After Season 5 of the beloved series ended in 2019, here’s John Luther’s chance to flex his muscles again. When viewers last saw him, he was stripped of his DCI title and sent to prison after the apparent death of his lover and partner Alice. But as a madman named David Robbie (played by the great Andy Serkis) begins a new era of technical horror, it’s time for Luther to step out of the shadows again and take him down.
Luther: The Falling Sun Seeing Idris Elba reprise his iconic Netflix role, he joined his longtime friend and colleague Martin Schenk (Dermot Crowley). But those were not all familiar faces, and Ruth Wilson’s Alice was nowhere to be seen. Instead, Luther faces – intellectually speaking – a confrontation with outspoken DCI Odette Raine, who would rather see a vigilante detective behind bars than an escaped serial killer.
rant screen Talk to Erivo about Luther’s grayscale ethical handling in the face of her character’s black-and-white thinking and the joys of filming Luther: sundown In the cold of Iceland, and her efforts to achieve sinister Exactly.
Luther’s Cynthia Erivo: Fallen Sun
Screen Rant: Are you? luthier Before taking on a role, was there a situation where you said, “Let me see what this is about”?
Cynthia Erivo: I’m a fan! I watched it all and was blown away by the way it was done, the writing, the seriousness and the way London played a part in the whole thing. I really like it.
As viewers, we tend to be enigmatically admiring Luther’s wary-style approach, but DCI Raine clearly doesn’t. Is this animosity purely out of her beliefs, or is there something more personal? What do you think about this?
Cynthia Erivo: I think it’s a bit of both. I think by the time you meet her, DCI Raine has decided to try and do things differently. She wants to play by the rules and I think she believes there is a right way and a wrong way to follow the rules. For her, work is personal. So when someone does something that is not done according to the rules; That kind of counterintuitive feeling, it feels like a personal attack.
However, she also has to consider – when you’re watching a movie with her – that sometimes darkness is necessary. She really has to get in touch with her own shadow too. Sometimes, depending on the situation they’re in, you may be forced to deal with the problem yourself. True and false become a gray area, depending on how the result is obtained.
Absolute. Sometimes I can’t tell in a movie people are going to decide what to do, and that makes me wonder what my own life would be like. Does it make you reflect on your own life?
Cynthia Erivo: Well, I think I’ve always known that there’s darkness and light inside every person. We have different measures, how much we use is up to us. I wondered what brought me to Odette and Luther. I can understand why the loss of your daughter or the prospect of losing her can push you to the edge of the abyss. I completely understand this. I think we all have different reasons for revealing our darkness.
You mentioned London as a character in the story, but in the movie, we’re going somewhere other than London. Were you really in the snow during those scenes? how cold are you
Cynthia Erivo: We’re in Iceland and it’s very cold there. But it’s interesting. We stood looking into the distance, everywhere there were glaciers and snow. We were there! That’s where we are; that’s not where CGI is. We were in the snow, it was cold and it was still snowing.
Sometimes we have to work hard to make it snow-free, and rightly so. We’ve been through it. It was great when we got there. I can’t believe we made it; it’s really good.
I couldn’t believe it when I was watching it. It’s amazing to see.
Cynthia Erivo: But it is! Shimmering beauty. We stood on top of that, the sky was blue; the ice and the snow were white, and the mountains stretched to the sky. It’s crazy; it’s something out of a movie. [Laughs]
You and Idris have some great scenes together. How did it feel to film them and learn that he was Luther?
Cynthia Erivo: I knew him before making this movie. It was great to spend time with him, to work with him, to talk to him. I love doing those scenes together because I think our pace is really cute and he’s a kind, generous actor who also creates a lot of space for others. really cool. He also works very hard.
Your range of projects is amazing to me.from Pinocchio arrive drifted arrive luthier, I can never guess what you will do next. What is most important to you when choosing a project?
Cynthia Erivo: It’s the characters; it’s the people. I read the script and if I had met that person before, I probably wouldn’t have played them. If I hadn’t met them before and I was interested in what they were doing, I would ask myself this question: “Would you like to talk to this person? Are they interesting?” And I bent down and said, “Yeah, yeah, I’m going to play this guy. I want to know more about them.”
Then you add who’s directing, what the script is saying, and you’re doing the opposite. I put together a little recipe and said, “I like this recipe and I like the taste of the food. So I’m going to lean in.”
There was a moment in the movie where Andy Serkis was singing and I was like, “Can Cynthia sing?” I was so disappointed but you can sing sinister, we all keep those songs in our hearts. How do you prepare for such an iconic role?
Cynthia Erivo: Oh, there’s a lot involved. You can see on my Instagram that I work out a lot and it’s true because I need to keep my mind and body super focused. I have a wonderful vocal coach, the most helpful woman I could wish for, and she did this for me.
It was a conversation we had, me and Ariana, me and the director. Even the costume designers; Hair and makeup. Creating these women in this world is a real collaborative effort and that’s how we prepare for that.
We are in it now. We are in it. We are working hard and every little detail has been considered. Think about it all the time, and I’m glad people noticed it when it’s done. I think it will be very special. It was really special for me and we had some really great moments.
About Luther: The Fallen Sun
In Luther: Falling Sun – the epic sequel to the award-winning TV legend – a terrifying serial killer is terrorizing London, and brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther (Idris Elba) sits prison. Luther, too worried about not catching the internet psychopaths now mocking him, decides to break out of prison to get the job done no matter what. The film also stars Cynthia Erivo, Andy Serkis and Dermot Crowley, who will return as Martin Shenk.
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