The Dangerous Counterpart

The Dangerous Counterpart

Author: Claire Dunlevy Listening Length: 11h 12m
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Season Seven of Universe Below has been announced, and Eloise Silver, until now known mainly for an Australian soap opera and a run of ice-cream commercials, is promoted to the lead. Her sharpest credit remains a prime-time performance as the wife of a real-life mob boss. Estella Grant is no longer only that wife: afte...

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Ellie was drifting. There was no other way to put it. It was the final day of shooting season seven of Universe Below and she could not keep it together.

“Action!” cried Anastasia for the fifth take of this scene — Estella Grant, gun in hand, murdering her husband — and Ellie could not do it. It felt like she was actively disassociating, hovering outside herself, watching the woman who she’d kissed, who she’d shared a bed with, take a human life.

It wasn’t like this series of events was news to her, for fuck’s sake!

Estella herself had admitted it. But the way the script was written, it wasn’t the final straw of an abused woman taking out the monster who’d tormented her, the way Alison — and also Ellie — believed it to be.