“The books a very big book.

Its got a lot of set pieces, a lot of characters.

What I wanted to do was take all that away and keep the ideas of the book.”

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Yvonne Strahovski on ‘Teacup’.Daniel McFadden/PEACOCK

Part of that was making a minimalist story.

It was a maximalist piece of fiction.

I made it very grounded.

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Chaske Spencer and Scott Speedman on ‘Teacup’.Mark Hill/PEACOCK

Just how scary will the horror series be?

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‘Teacup’.Mark Hill/PEACOCK