Thursday 6 October 2022 01:04 AM Maxine star Jemma Carlton details her dramatic transformation into killer Ian ... trends now

Jemma Carlton has detailed how she transformed into killer Ian Huntley's fiancée Maxine Carr in the new Channel 5 drama Maxine.

The actress, who said she listened to Beyonce to de-stress at the end of filming, takes on the title role in the new mini series documenting the Soham murders through the eyes of Maxine.

The release date comes after 20 years after the murders of schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, both aged 10 at the time, took place.

Speaking to The Mirror, Jemma said: 'I felt Maxine was a mountain to climb as a part, but wanted to see how I can push myself in a complex real-life role.

'I watched every documentary about Maxine that I could get my hands on, and read as much as I could.

'Understanding how she spoke, how her friends and mother were to her, all of that information helped form my take on how she would react in certain moments.'

Jemma said she was always 'so tried' after each day of filming the role and would listen to Beyonce to held 'de-robe' from playing Maxine.

The actress said she spent a lot of time learning how Maxine moved and changed her posture and spoke in a more 'delicate' way to inhabit the character. 

The plot will look at Maxine's  tumultuous relationship with Huntley; why she lied for him and how she became 'public enemy number one'.

Episode one sees Maxine move to Soham for a fresh start with her boyfriend Ian but following a jealous argument with Ian, Maxine visits her mother for the weekend and enjoys a night out in her hometown of Grimsby.

She awakens to the news of the girls’ disappearance, and returns to Soham to provide Ian with an alibi.

The trailer opens with a scenes of the police searching in long grass as they attempt to find the two missing girls.

Played by Scott, a desperate Ian is then seen with his head in his hands, shouting: 'I can't go to prison,' before Jemma, playing Maxine, reassures him that nobody will be going to jail.

She is then seen standing on the doorstep of their home, where a policeman tells Maxine: 'Your story might jog a memory, help find them,' to which Maxine smiles and says: 'We want to help, don't we.'

Recreating real-life scenes which were broadcast to the nation on television news as she described the missing girls, Maxine says of Holly and Jessica: 'They were ever so funny. They were brilliant, they were kind to everybody.'

The police are then heard speculating that Maxine be keeping a secret, with a detective pondering: 'She used past tense because she knows they're dead?'

Maxine is then seen in the interrogation room as she insists Ian did not do anything to the girls.

In further chilling scenes, Maxine is then seen practicing looking serious in the mirror after Ian shouts at her: 'You tell me don't look so guilty. You don't look so cheery!' 

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