And an overwhelming amount of the few female serial killers choose very neat and tidy ways to do it, so poisoning, or smothering, or an overdose, or things like that. And men choose very different methods men will choose visceral, messy. And men usually kill for visceral, sexual gratification, whereas with women it’s usually always for financial and social gain. J.F.: The few female serial killers that have been studied, they usually don’t start killing until they’re in their thirties. WWD: What are the other traits of female serial killers she possessed? There aren’t many female serial killers anyway. J.F.: You feel incredibly sorry for her still because she suffered a real tragedy, you know? She didn’t commit any crimes that are known of until she’s into her thirties, and apparently that’s quite a normal trait of female serial killers. WWD: How did you go about bringing humanity to a serial killer character?
Had she been living in this day and age with birth control and all the things that are available to us now, would she have ended up murdering people? I don’t know. But it’s that age-old question, “Is it nature or nurture?” Like, she’s a woman living in the mid-1800s who has no prospects, and there’s no way to change her life. We meet her at the age of 25 having lost four children through natural causes, and she’s almost driven mad with grief, in a way. It was just such a fascinating character and psyche to try and understand and get into because, you know, she’s Britain’s first female serial killer, in the 1800s, and the difficulty is that when your protagonist is somebody who is doing terrible things, how do you make an audience want to watch it, you know? Masterpiece: Dark Angel PREVIEW, 786 views, May 17, 2017, 4 Dislike Share Save, Arizona Public Media, 28.6K subscribers, Joanne Froggatt plays the notorious Victorian poisoner Mary Ann Cotton. Joanne Froggatt: After doing “Downton,” people kept saying to me, “Oh, what do you want to do next?” and I jokingly kept saying, “I want to play, I don’t know, something completely different - like a murderer.” And then the script came for “Dark Angel,” and I was like, “Oh wow, well there it is.” WWD: What made “Dark Angel,” the right project to follow up “Downton” with?
Here, Froggatt talks more about the character - and serial killers.
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