Big Finish's version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll & Hyde is now out, and we had the chance to chat with star John Heffernan and writer/director Nicholas Briggs
John: Well, it's an actor's dream. You want complexity and extremes and you're always looking for something which is going to challenge you. There's probably nothing more challenging than two people at either ends of the spectrum and trying to find the meeting point between them. In the most essential sense, it's a battle between good and evil going on in his head the entire time.
Nick: I just found it a fascinating story. What fascinated me is that it is not the story that everyone thinks it is. I really wanted to tell it more how it was in the novella, to just give it a chance, because hardly anyone ever tells it that way. Hardly anyone makes it Gabriel Utterson's story. He's the lawyer whose friend is Doctor Jekyll – he hears about Mr Hyde and wonders what on earth is going on and why his lovely friend Jekyll associates with this abominable person.
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