‘I
think I really enjoy having a bad time,” says Juliet Stevenson, an actress who can turn a bad day into art like nobody else. She’s on stage in New York playing an insistently rational surgeon whose life is torn apart in a cancel-culture storm in The Doctor, a show she played in the West End last year. Other theatrical hits in the past decade have included being buried alive (in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days), being imprisoned, then executed (in Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart), and unwittingly marrying her husband’s scheming killer (playing Gertrude to Andrew Scott’s Hamlet).
And now there is her latest television series, Wolf. Adapted from a horror-thriller novel by Mo Hayder, it features Stevenson and Owen Teale
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