DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S SEVEN DIALS CREATOR CHRIS CHIBNALL JOINS STARS MIA MCKENNA-BRUCE, EDWARD BLUEMEL AND MARTIN FREEMAN TO TALK ABOUT THIS LATEST ADAPTATION. BY YOLANTHE FAWEHINMI

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STELLAR: Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Caterham with Bundle, left, and Martin Freeman as Superintendent Battle, above

AFTER actress Mia McKenna-Bruce welcomed her son Leo to the world in 2023, she was not sure how she would balance her rising career with motherhood.

"Most notably, she has a snack basket on set for energy at all times, because she thinks that you need energy, which is so true. We had a very fun snack basket.

"We called ourselves psychic sisters, because sometimes I was the mum and sometimes Helena was the mum, depending on what day. We were more like sisters."

But when she was offered the lead role of Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent in Netflix's upcoming adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel, The Seven Dials Mystery - which also stars the likes of Helena Bonham Carter (The Crown), Martin Freeman (The Office) and Nabhaan Rizwan (Film Club) - she tried not to think too much about it.

"Oh my God. I just went with it and had the most fun. We had the best cast, the best crew, and the hours were demanding," says Mia, 28, who won a British Independent Film Award and the Bafta Rising Star Award for her performance in 2023 film How to Have Sex.

"I had an eight-month-old baby at the time. So when we first started, I wasn't sure how I was going to do it, because it was the first time I had to learn lines word for word, and not ad-lib or dance around what we were saying.