![]() ![]() ![]() Stirred into a fanatical fervor, the villagers are quick to find a scapegoat in Cora. ![]() The villagers blame the serpent-but local vicar Will Ransome, played by Tom Hiddleston, rejects its very existence. She ventures northeast to the rustic fishing hamlet of “Aldwinter” with her son and servant/best friend to investigate the existence of an animal that may have escaped evolution and has captured her imagination.Īt the same time, a young Aldwinter girl has gone missing in the marshlands. When he dies, she is free to follow her passion-and follow up on reported sightings of a “sea dragon” stalking the waters and marshy inlets of Essex. She feels caged in her upper-class London home where she is kept like a prized bird by her much older and abusive husband. The Essex Serpent follows the journey of amateur naturalist Cora Seaborne, played with fierce intelligence by Claire Danes. Eager and restless, she mentally ticked off where she would look to find the worlds described in the story: Victorian London and a period fishing village perched by the sea. ![]() She became consumed with researching the mysterious, edge-of-the-world landscape in which it’s set. In between stints of gardening and baking, Lawrence had the time to delve into the novel. Harriet Lawrence and Jonjo Stickland, marine coordinator. ![]()
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