Jack Thorne On How Sharon Horgan’s “Terrifying” Notes Helped Shape BBC Series ‘Best Interests’ Into A Story About Parents Torn Apart By A Tragic Choice
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Jack Thorne is a writer at the peak of his powers, so there are probably few people who can shred his nerves when they comment on his scripts.
Sharon Horgan happens to be one such person. The BAFTA-winning Bad Sisters and Catastrophe creator was not wielding a pen on Thorne’s BBC series Best Interests, but did bring motherly instincts to what is arguably her most dramatic role to date.
Horgan plays Nicci in the powerful story of a family torn apart by a devastating dilemma over whether to remove life support from their terminally ill daughter, Marnie.
Thorne had written several scenes between Andrew (Nicci’s husband, played by Michael Sheen) and their eldest daughter Katie, who cuts a forlorn figure at home as her sister lies stricken in hospital.
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