{"id":105745,"date":"2025-08-31T23:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/105745\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T23:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:16:12","slug":"the-guest-writer-teases-eve-myless-character-is-utterly-terrifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/105745\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guest writer teases Eve Myles\u2019s character is \u201cutterly terrifying\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

However, when Fran\u2019s advice leads to a shocking event, the two very different women become intertwined by shared secrets and dangerous plots, leaving questioning just who is playing who.<\/p>\n

Barry spoke exclusively with Radio Times ahead of the new series airing, and gave hints at what we can expect from the two central performances.<\/p>\n

\"Week<\/p>\n

Eve Myles as Fran and Gabrielle Creevy as Ria in The Guest.\u00a0BBC\/Simon Ridgeway<\/p>\n

When asked whether Myles or Creevy brought anything to their characters that surprised him, Barry said that “they both did in kind of different ways”.<\/p>\n

“I think Gabrielle leans into the realism,” he said. “So she would often bring things down and ground them in a way that was just really, really believable.<\/p>\n

“And then I think Eve brought a lot of humour to the part. But what I think she does so well, she can turn on a dime. So she can be laughing one minute and making you as an audience laugh, and then really pull the rug and be utterly, utterly terrifying. And I think she does that so well, she can just flip in an instant.”<\/p>\n

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The four-part series also stars Sion Daniel Young, Emun Elliott, Bethan Mary-James, Julian Lewis Jones, Joseph Ollman, Clive Russell and Catherine Ayers.<\/p>\n

Barry has previously written episodes of series including EastEnders<\/a> and Industry<\/a>, and he was also behind the 2023 TV film Men Up.<\/p>\n

The Guest will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The Guest will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Monday 1st September at 9pm.<\/p>\n

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