Requiem actress Lydia Wilson exposes detail from chilling scene
The plot centres around Matilda Gray (played by Lydia Wilson), a cellist who has her world turned upside down following her mother's (Joanna Scanlan) unexpected suicide. As Matilda smoked a cigarette outside the concert hall before a big recital, her mother Janice suddenly appeared in a trance-like state. Janice had seemed fine up until she began to prepare herself at home for her daughter’s performance, where supernatural forces seemed to terrorise her in her bedroom. Matilda followed as her mother walked mindlessly round the area surrounding the National Theatre and Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank before heading to an underground carpark.
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To Matilda’s horror, her mother then killed herself right in front of her. Although the actual death was not shown on screen, it still made for a terrifying moment. However, Lydia has revealed one important detail of the scene that may have evaded viewers. Speaking to press including Express.co.uk, she said: “We shot all the exteriors around here [the South Bank], and then we went to Cardiff and just did the car park bit.”
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We shot the scene for twelve hours Lydia Wilson
While the scene looked as though it was shot all on one location it turns out there were two, and they were miles apart. The 33-year-old actress also divulged that it was a lengthy scene to film. “We did it for twelve hours,” she confessed. The remainder of the episode saw Matilda find a box containing photographs and newspaper clippings relating to a girl who went missing in Wales in 1994.
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