Obsession: Do you know the sulphurous version with Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons?

Obsession: Do you know the sulphurous version with Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons?

Obsession : Netflix faces a dangerous business

After 365 days AND Sex/LifeNetflix just added a new sulfur show to its catalog with Obsession. Available on the platform from April 13, this four-episode miniseries created by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Benji Walters tells the story of William (Richard Armitage), a surgeon who falls under the spell of Anna (Charlie Murphy), his son’s girlfriend Jay (Rish Shah).

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Anna (Charlie Murphy) – Obsession ©Netflix

start between them a passionate relationship that will have devastating consequences on their lives. After climbing to the top of the most watched shows, the series has caused a huge reaction from the internet users. Richard Armitage especially defended the shocking ending, consistent in his view with the plot, taken from the book Dangerous by Josephine Hart.

A passion already transposed on the screen

In 1992, Louis Malle was already adapting the novel with his penultimate film, Fatal. A feature film set in London, in which Jeremy Irons lends his features to the politician Stephen Fleming. When they meet his son Martyn’s (Rupert Graves) girlfriend, Anna Barton (Juliette Binoche), an instant mutual attraction is born.

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Anna Barton (Juliette Binoche) – Fatal ©STUDIOCANAL

A drama that has left a bitter memory for the actress. In 2008, she told the Keeper :

ON FatalJeremy Irons was very difficult to work with. Now we can talk about it, so the failure has turned into something about friendship, I would say.

The actress reportedly accused her partner of being one “too passionate” while filming the sex scenes. She allegedly reproached him in particular for having made a french kiss unforeseen events during filming. For her part, Jeremy Irons assures in 2013 that Juliette Binoche “was very hard, because she had just come out of a destructive relationship and hated all men”. Finally, Louis Malle affirms it Fatal it was his “hardest film to make”, adding:

Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche gave me a hard time, for various reasons that mainly had to do with my physical weakness.

Source: Cine Serie

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