THE Luminaries' Eva Green has revealed how she loved playing a 'naughty baddie' who thinks she is 'above the law' in the new BBC drama.
The six-part series is based on the Man Booker Prize-winning novel by Eleanor Catton and is set on New Zealand's South Island during the 19th Century gold rush.
Eva, 39, plays Lydia Wells, an American who runs a fortune parlour and the French star had great fun playing the self-proclaimed "survivor".
She told the BBC: "She’s a natural entrepreneur. She’s very strong, very sharp, and she’s figured out that the only way to make money in those days was to make money in town. "Lydia is fun to play because she’s always game.
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