How Matt Smith brought Bunny Munro to life for the small screen

Matt Smith and Nick Cave tell Lynn Rusk about bringing Cave’s 2009 novel The Death Of Bunny Munro to life in a new six-part TV series

Rafael Mathe as Bunny Junior and Matt Smith as Bunny Munro. Picture:SKY UK, Clerkenwell Films

Australian musician and writer Nick Cave began developing a screenplay about a travelling door-to-door salesman 20 years ago. When he and director John Hillcoat failed to secure backing for the project, Cave grew impatient and decided to turn it into a novel instead.

In 2009, The Death Of Bunny Munro, the story of a sex-addicted, door-to-door beauty salesman, was published.