How Guy Pearce wound up on MareOfEasttown
had appeared in HBO’s miniseriesalongside Guy in 2011. “Kate had the idea cause they had worked together before,” Ingelsby toldStill Watching podcast this week. “She said, 'Listen, it's an easy call I can make, we'll see if Guy would be interested.”Winslet, who had already asked longtime personal friendto come on board to play Mare's closest friend Lori Ross, could be sure that she and Pearce had both an established working dynamic and palpable on-screen chemistry together.
But because Winslet tapped such a well-known friend of hers to fill in at the last minute, the character of Richard quickly became a source of suspicion forfanatics. Creator Brad Ingelsby agreed with me when I referred to Guy Pearce as an “accidental red herring.” “I've read a bunch of theories online about Guy but he was always he was always written as a character that would just come in and be sort of a light in Mare's life,” Ingelsby explains. “He came into her life at this very challenging time and he helped her get through it and he was always only that.”“I do understand the suspicion,” Ingelsby continues, “Especially because it's Guy and he's such a wonderful actor, but, um, but he was always only written as that.
Pearce's character then exits the show mid-way through the finale because, while Richard and Mare share a nice connection, her character has some emotional work she needs to do on her own. According to Ingelsby, about eight months pass between the beginning events of the finale and then end. “Sometimes that's the way relationships go,” he says, “not everything is, you know, a hundred years later, we're still together.
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