'These two go head-to-head'

Robin Wright and Olivia Cooke front Prime Video's new thriller series The Girlfriend - where one woman’s suspicions lead her on a deadly path

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Secrets, suspicion and simmering class tensions drive Prime Video's new six-part thriller The Girlfriend.

Robin Wright takes centre stage both behind and in front of the camera, serving as executive producer and unexpectedly stepping into the role of Laura, a well-heeled mother forced to grapple with her son's dangerously intoxicating new partner.

But American-born Robin insisted she never planned to star in the series. “Everybody was going to be British and we couldn't get anybody,” she said.

Producer Jonathan Cavendish eventually convinced her. “He goes, ‘Why don't you just play her? Because you understand her,’” Robin, 59, said. The House Of Cards star obliged, going head-to-head with Olivia Cooke’s Cherry.

Fresh from House Of The Dragon, (Laurie Davidson). Then Cherry appears. Bold, magnetic and slightly dangerous, she unsettles Laura's seemingly perfect world.

“Cherry is like fire and Laura, for the longest time, has tried to fan those flames inside herself,” Olivia said. “But when you're up against someone as combustible as Cherry, Laura can’t help but become that herself.”