'Dracula' Episode 1 ends with the reveal that a key character from the Bram Stoker novel is played by a woman in this new version, and creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss explained why at the BBC series' premiere.
, series co-showrunner Steven Moffat revealed that the character started simply as the Sister Agatha from the book, and only became Van Helsing as they began to widen the character's role.
He said,"She's got a tiny, tiny role in the book—she's got a much better agent now, clearly! We were trying to work out how to write these scenes and make them interesting because there's a dead man talking to a nun. It's not potentially that riveting. "So we came up with the idea of an atheist nun, we just called her 'Atheist Nun,' the nun who didn't really believe in anything and made lots of jokes, and that character immediately leapt to the top of the script. You just thought, 'my god, that's great.'
"And very, very quickly, we thought, 'that's Van Helsing, isn't it, we don't need anyone else, we just need the nun. Then you just think, 'nuns are more or less dressed in the superhero outfit for fighting vampires, aren't they? Why didn't Bram think of that one?!'" When Dolly Wells was first brought on to play the 'atheist nun,' she had no idea that the character was becoming Van Helsing. She said,"I didn't know at the beginning. I just knew that she was a crazy cool woman, the coolest woman I've ever read on the page, but I didn't know she was Van Helsing. I just knew that I really wanted to be her. Like me, she's a bit Dutch, and I went to a convent school and wanted to be a nun until the age of 12.
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