We spoke w/ Stonehouse stars Matthew Macfadyen and exkevinmcnally about the show, the challenges of playing real people, and the bizarre true story that inspired it all.
Truth really is stranger than fiction — just ask Matthew Macfadyen and Kevin R. McNally, stars of the new Britbox limited series, Stonehouse, based on the wild true story of an MP’s attempts at evading the law. Hailing from A Very British Scandal writer John Preston, the series is a dramatized take on what happens when one man in power attempts to disappear…but isn’t much good at it at all.
I was going to ask if you had familiarity with that. I know Matthew, you’ve said you were quite young when it happened. MCNALLY: Yes. I would add to that in that…I would say Stonehouse is actually, or although it's sort of broad and absurd, and it's very funny, and it's a very well told story, it's actually closer to the true story than many things I've ever seen.
MACFADYEN: Yeah. We just had a really, really great time. We had a really nice time. Apart from anything else, just domestically, it was really nice to hang out. Usually, we're scattered and trying to keep the plates spinning. But it was really nice to go to work together, sort of see each other. MACFADYEN: I think you know, when you read a script. You think, "This is great." It's a visceral feeling of “this is a great story, I could do something with this.” And it's just in the writing. I sort of tore through John's script. It's so brilliantly written. It's so light and funny, and yet, not sort of surface. It was just a great thing to read.
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