A Cruel Love star Lucy Boynton shares huge challenge of playing Ruth Ellis

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It's been seven decades since Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, met her fate. Now, actress Lucy Boynton feels it's high time to delve back into her story with the drama series A Cruel Love. "I'm so grateful to this series because I think it's the first time that we do really examine her story with a contemporary lens, what led to this being allowed to happen in broad daylight when even in 1955 it was a tremendous miscarriage of justice," she shares.

Lucy, known for her role in Bohemian Rhapsody, steps into Ruth's shoes in the new series.The plot centres on Ruth, a 28 year old London nightclub manager, as she gets entangled in a fiery yet toxic relationship with racing driver David Blakely, played by Laurie Davidson.Their love story, marred by what is now identified as domestic violence, culminated in tragedy when Ruth fatally shot David outside a Hampstead pub in April 1955, leading to her immediate arrest and subsequent trial for his murder.

Describing their volatile relationship, Lucy says, "It was such a tumultuous relationship, but they couldn't stay away from each other," She adds, "Within weeks of meeting they were already living together.They seemed to be magnetised to each other.

It's hard for us on the outside to understand it but it was clearly intoxicating. And then it quickly turned very sour. He was very jealous, yet also unfaithful.