NEW YORK, April 9 (UPI) -- The Better Sister, Pitch Perfect and The Hunger Games alum Elizabeth Banks says the spouses at the heart of her new dramedy, The Miniature Wife, were isolated from each other even before one of them physically shrinks the other.
Premiering Thursday on Peacock, the series is based on a short story by Miguel Gonzalez and follows bio-agritech scientist Les (Matthew Mavfadyen) as he accidentally shrinks his Pulitzer Prize-winning wife LIndy and must race against time to find a way to reverse the procedure, while she fights off bugs, animals and household appliances in an effort to stay alive.
"They're on a rocky road and headed towards divorce. But, I think they're trying, not too sincerely or successfully, but trying," Banks, 52, told UPI in a Zoom interview Tuesday.
"The other thing that's going on is that, secretly, Les is actually very close to an incredible breakthrough that he's not sharing with his wife at all."
Succession Emmy winner Macfadyen added: "That makes him think everything's going to be OK. Once that happens, everything will be fine."
