Olivia Colman admits discovering Broadchurch secret she shouldn’t have known

Olivia Colman admitted she found out a Broadchurch secret she shouldn’t have known.Source: The Graham Norton Show, BBC

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00:00 You were the only person on Broadchurch who knew who did it.

00:03 Yes. How did they make that mistake?

00:05 That was a whoops.

00:06 So, I went for the first meeting, I'd read it,

00:10 read the first episode, I went to meet the producers,

00:12 and they said, "What do you think?" I went, "I love it."

00:15 And I said, "Please, who did it?" And then they told me.

00:17 And I cried and they went, "That's exactly what we want, yeah."

00:20 And then, before I'd even got home,

00:23 sort of a 20-minute journey back, I got so many messages going,

00:26 "We've f***ed up, we shouldn't have told you,

00:28 "don't tell anyone, we think we're going to do it

00:30 "with none of the actors knowing,

00:32 "not even the person who did it knowing."

00:34 I went, "OK."

00:35 LAUGHTER

00:37 And I thought that I could maybe do it with...

00:39 But then the whole nation went a bit, they loved it.

00:42 And everyone... I just had to stop going on the bus and everything.

00:46 Yeah. I just...

00:48 You know, you want to tell everybody.