Great Expectations FIRST LOOK: Olivia Colman looks UNRECOGNISABLE with white hair and yellow teeth

Olivia Colman looks unrecognisable with white hair and yellow teeth in the first teaser trailer for BBC’s upcoming adaptation of Great Expectations.

The actress, 49, who plays Miss Havisham in the Charles Dickens classic, welcomes a young Pip (Tom Sweet) to Satis House for the first time in the footage.

She tells the aspiring gentleman, later played by Fionn Whitehead, ‘Let me see you… what a prize creature we have fished from the river.’

Olivia’s costume also includes an elaborate dead floral headpiece and a veil, along with a collection of silver jewellery and a traditional cream gown.

Produced by FX Productions in association with the BBC, Scott Free and Hardy Son & Baker, Great Expectations is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life. 

A twist of fate soon introduces him to the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham and Estella (Shalom Brune-Franklin), showing him a dark world of possibilities

Under the great expectations placed upon him, Pip will have to work out the cost of this new world and whether it will truly make him the man he wishes to be.

Great Expectations will also star Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Laurie Ogden, Matt Berry, Trystan Gravelle and Rudi Dharmalingam.

Steven Knight has written and executive produced Great Expectations alongside Tom Hardy, Ridley Scott, Dean Baker, David W. Zucker, Kate Crowe and Tommy Bulfin for the BBC – the team behind FX’s A Christmas Carol – with Brady Hood and Samira Radsi as directors.

Great Expectations is the second Dickens adaptation penned by Steven, following the hit limited series A Christmas Carol.

Author Charles first released the work in a series of weekly chapters beginning in December 1860, before it was subsequently published as a novel.

His famous novel follows the story of Pip, who lives with his sister Mrs Joe Gargery and her blacksmith husband Joe.

Martita Hunt played the role of Miss Havisham in the 1946 film version, while Gillian Anderson took on the role in 2012.

New role: The actress, 49, who plays Miss Havisham in the Charles Dickens classic, welcomes a young Pip to Satis House for the first time in the footage

Wow! Olivia’s costume also includes an elaborate dead floral headpiece and a veil, along with a collection of silver jewellery and a traditional cream gown.

The broadcaster had previously produced a three-part drama titled of the same name which was written by Sarah Phelps in 2011.

It starred Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham and Douglas Booth as Pip with the miniseries being well received by viewers.

Olivia recently revealed she tried to have her raunchy scenes with onscreen lover Michael Ward, 25, removed from their new film Empire Of Light.

Speaking about her ’embarrassment’, Olivia said: ‘I always wanted Sam to take out the sex scenes because I was so embarrassed.’

In-character: She tells the aspiring gentleman, later played by Fionn Whitehead, ‘Let me see you… what a prize creature we have fished from the river’

Talented: Great Expectations is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life (Tom Sweet is pictured as a young Pip)

‘I said, ‘Why can’t they go for the kiss, and cut, and then pretend that it had already happened?’, she continued.

‘Michael was much more mature than me and helped me deal with my nerves.’

Empire Of Light is a love story ‘set around a beautiful old cinema on the South Coast of England in the 1980s’.

Filming on the project began in early February in Margate. The seaside town was transported back to the 1980s as builders transformed the area surrounding the Dreamland amusement park.

Again? The broadcaster had previously produced a three-part drama titled of the same name which was written by Sarah Phelps in 2011 (Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham)