Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch Promote ‘The Roses’ at BBC Studios

Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch Promote ‘The Roses’ at BBC Studios

Olivia Colman looked stylish as she joined her co-star Benedict Cumberbatch at the BBC studios to promote their remake of War Of The Roses on Thursday. 

The actress, 51, and Dr Strange star, 49, were in high spirits as they laughed and gathered under an umbrella outside the building in Leicester Square, London. 

Olivia wore an oversized, pinstriped blazer which she teamed with a matching pair of loose fitting cropped trousers and stiletto heels. 

Benedict put on a smart display in a white shirt, with a T-shirt layered underneath and black tapered trousers. 

Dark divorce comedy, The Roses, is set for release August 29 and is based on 1981 novel, The War of the Roses and is a remake of the 1989 Hollywood classic. 

The pair, follow in the footsteps of Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and play a married couple whose increasingly bitter separation explodes into comically exaggerated resentment and hatred.

Olivia Colman looked stylish as she joined her co-star Benedict Cumberbatch at the BBC studios to promote their remake of War Of The Roses on Thursday

Olivia Colman looked stylish as she joined her co-star Benedict Cumberbatch at the BBC studios to promote their remake of War Of The Roses on Thursday

The actress, 51, and Dr Strange star, 49, were in high spirits as they laughed and gathered under an umbrella outside the building in Leicester Square, London

The actress, 51, and Dr Strange star, 49, were in high spirits as they laughed and gathered under an umbrella outside the building in Leicester Square, London

It is directed by Jay Roach, who previously worked on the Austin Powers comedies, and scripted by Poor Things writer Tony McNamara. 

The cast also includes new Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa, and American comedians Andy Samberg and Kate McKinnon.

Filming took place in both Salcombe, south Devon and Los Angeles, with the pair first seen on set on a beach in Devon in June last year.  

The 1989 version was directed by Danny DeVito, who also starred as a divorce lawyer, reuniting a trio who had proved so successful in 1984 adventure Romancing The Stone and its sequel The Jewel Of The Nile.

The new version has been described as a ‘re-imagining’.

Producers Searchlight Pictures say of the plot: ‘Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Theo and Ivy: successful careers, great kids, an enviable sex life.

‘But underneath the facade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentments that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down.’

Sources say that despite the actors being ‘very keen’ to work together, all was not well during filming, with Benedict’s serious ‘method’ acting at odds with Olivia’s ‘no-nonsense, let’s get on with it’ attitude.

Olivia wore an oversized, pinstriped blazer which she teamed with a matching pair of loose fitting cropped trousers

Olivia wore an oversized, pinstriped blazer which she teamed with a matching pair of loose fitting cropped trousers

She added a pair of stiletto heels and accessorised with a black clutch bag

She added a pair of stiletto heels and accessorised with a black clutch bag

Benedict put on a smart display in a white shirt, with a T-shirt layered underneath and tapered trousers

Benedict put on a smart display in a white shirt, with a T-shirt layered underneath and tapered trousers

Dark divorce comedy, The Roses, is set for release August 29 and is based on 1981 novel, The War of the Roses and is a remake of the 1989 Hollywood classic

Dark divorce comedy, The Roses, is set for release August 29 and is based on 1981 novel, The War of the Roses and is a remake of the 1989 Hollywood classic

The pair, follow in the footsteps of Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and play a married couple whose increasingly bitter separation explodes into comically exaggerated resentment

The pair, follow in the footsteps of Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and play a married couple whose increasingly bitter separation explodes into comically exaggerated resentment 

The 1989 version was directed by Danny DeVito (Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner pictured)

The 1989 version was directed by Danny DeVito (Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner pictured)

One insider told The Mail on Sunday: ‘The Roses was supposed to be a fairly easy and straightforward one to film – about a husband and a wife who don’t like one another.

‘But at times Benedict was treating it like it was some kind of Shakespearean play, wanting to seriously connect with his part, which is totally fair enough.

‘Olivia is very much the type to just get on with it, no faffing. It’s a comedy – it’s like there was a lot of overthinking going on.

‘It led to the chemistry between them not exactly being the best. It was a comedy, like a romcom, not the airy fairy-type stuff Benedict has done before.’ 

A spokesman for Cumberbatch attempted to play down the issues between the pair.

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