Known for varied roles on stage and screen, Reeves now plays a disaffected wife on a European road trip in the BBC’s David Nicholls adaptation. Is there a Brexit metaphor in there somewhere?
There is a neat little coincidence in the casting of Us, BBC One’s soulful new four-part miniseries. Saskia Reeves and Tom Hollander star as Connie and Douglas Petersen, a middle-aged couple embarking on a “grand tour” of European galleries with their art student son Albie (Doctor Foster’s Tom Taylor), while contemplating the end of their 24-year relationship.
It was also about two and a half decades ago that Reeves, a star of stage and screen since the early 90s, first met her contemporary, Hollander, at the outset of another significant journey. “He drove my removals van when I went to Stratford years ago, because he was very good friends with Hugh Bonneville, who was in the same [RSC] season as I was,” she says. “He doesn’t remember, I don’t think. But that was just Tom; very generous.”
