
Suranne Jones and Eve Best on Their Characters
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Suranne Jones and Eve Best describe their characters' complicated relationship.
"You can live in the same house but have wildly different experiences, can't you?" MaryLand creator, executive producer, and star Suranne Jones and co-star Eve Best describe their characters and the complicated relationship between the sisters.
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Suranne Jones and Eve Best on Their Characters
Clip: Season 2024 | 1m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
"You can live in the same house but have wildly different experiences, can't you?" MaryLand creator, executive producer, and star Suranne Jones and co-star Eve Best describe their characters and the complicated relationship between the sisters.
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Suranne Jones Interview: Making MaryLand
In MaryLand, British actor Suranne Jones brings to life a deeply moving, highly relatable love story of sorts between two sisters searching for answers on the Isle of Man. How did Jones, Rizzo from Grease, and a princess from the Game of Thrones prequel create this quiet and beautiful story? Find out!Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(gentle music) (waves whooshing) - My name's Suranne Jones.
I am a co-creator, executive producer, and I play Becca in "MaryLand".
- We need to switch you.
- [Jones] Becca is ordinary, extraordinary, every woman.
She has defined herself by being a carer.
She has looked after her sister, she's looked after her mother.
She's looked after her children.
She looks after her husband.
She's got to a point in her mid forties where she doesn't know what else she is.
- I don't wanna fade into the background, Jim.
I feel like I'm disappearing.
- [Jones] Rosaline and Becca, when we first meet them, you immediately sense that they're not connected in any sisterly way whatsoever.
Rosaline is single, has defined herself by work and keeping busy and being a high flyer, and is a total opposite to Becca.
Everything that happens is devastating 'cause she didn't know who her mother was, and she thought she did.
She'd modeled her family life on her mother and father.
Coming to the Isle of Man stops Becca in her tracks 'cause she's got no one to care for.
Stops Rosaline in her tracks.
It forces both girls to take a deep look at what they knew.
- My therapist says we were forged in the same fire.
That's just therapy speak for "grew up in the same house," isn't it?
- You can live in the same house but have wildly different experiences, can't you?
- Rosaline's relationship with Becca is strained like many sibling relationships.
The closeness of Becca and their mom and them being a sort of tight-knit pair, and I think Rosaline's kind of deepest wound really is feeling like she's not in there.
She doesn't really feel seen.
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The cast describes the dynamics between the family and their friends in MaryLand. (2m 50s)
Suranne Jones and Eve Best on Their Characters
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Suranne Jones and Eve Best describe their characters' complicated relationship. (1m 56s)
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Starring Suranne Jones and Eve Best, MaryLand tells the story of two sisters. (2m)
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Everything comes to a head as Richard and Jim arrive on the Isle of Man. (30s)
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As new revelations emerge, the sisters deal with the fallout from their mother’s death. (30s)
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