The Luminaries’ Eva Green admits she loved playing ‘naughty baddie’ who thinks she is ‘above the law’ in new BBC drama – The Sun

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. She’s a gambler, she’s adventurous but she’s also a survivor.

"Like many survivors, there are no rules – she feels she’s above the law.

"She can have whatever she desires no matter the cost, so she’s quite naughty and she’s completely blinded by greed. She is a baddie."

However, Eva admits all baddies have a weakness, and for Lydia its Francis Carver, a violent career criminal who is the real villain of the piece.

Of their relationship, Eva said: "Francis Carver is Lydia’s lover. He is a passionate, brooding man.

"He’s the love of her life. She would do absolutely anything for him and they become partners in crime.

"Their relationship reminds me a bit of the Macbeth and Lady Macbeth dynamic.

"It is Lydia who plants the seeds of revenge and she’s the driving force behind all he does."

The Luminaries begins tonight at 9pm on BBC One.

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