What a Le Carré on... part 2! Night Manager star Elizabeth in another steamy TV clinch
JUST last week she was complaining about onedimensional female characters that were merely ‘projections of male fantasy’.
Now actress Elizabeth Debicki – who shot to fame after a raunchy clinch with Tom Hiddleston in The Night Manager – is to appear in more, equally racy, scenes.
In Australian drama The Kettering Incident, which hits British TV screens this week, she is seen baring her flesh in a skin-coloured bra as she gets intimate with a sleazy police officer, played by Matthew Le Nevez.
Debicki’s character then develops a nose bleed before the pair take things any further.
In another scene her character, a doctor, makes the resourceful decision to remove her top to use as a tourniquet on an injured man. And in order to look more closely at the wound, the 26-year-old pulls his head against her chest.
Debicki plays the lead role of Dr Anna Macy in the adult drama, which airs on Sky Atlantic from Wednesday. The plot revolves around her character returning to her home town 15 years after a mysterious, traumatic event that led to the disappearance of her best friend. In The Night Manager, Debicki’s character Jed was often involved in risqué sex scenes. But she said producers made the character more substantial than in John le Carré’s original novel.
She told the Radio Times: ‘When we set out to make The Night Manager, we were all very aware that in the book – and John le Carré doesn’t mind me saying so, he’s said it to me before – Jed was quite lacking in dimension. I just don’t think she was his focus. Also, in that genre, women just become a strange projection of male fantasy, they don’t seem to think or feel anything; if something ripples their surface, they instantly recover.’