NOTE: This page is only for the villainous portrayal of Joyce Reynolds from the 2023 film adaptation, not her counterparts in the novel and Agatha Christie's Poirot, who was a teenager and served as a neutral character.
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| “ | You don't believe in the soul's endurance after death. | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Reynolds to Poirot |
Joyce Reynolds, also known as Mrs. Reynolds, is the secondary antagonist of Kenneth Branagh's 2023 film, A Haunting in Venice, which is a loose adaptation of Agatha Christie's Hallowe'en Party. She also served as the central victim of the film.
She was portrayed by Michelle Yeoh, who also portrayed Tso Ngan Kwan in Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy, Philippa Georgiou in Star Trek: Discovery, Ms. Loo in The Tiger's Apprentice, and Madame Morrible in Wicked.
Biography[]
Personality[]
Unlike her original counterpart, who was a thirteen-year-old teenage girl, this version of Joyce Reynolds was an elderly woman who worked as a seance. While her original counterpart was not villainous, just being a consummate liar and attention-seeker, this version proved to be way worse.
Mrs. Reynolds was a horrible, lying and greedy psychic who would use false kindness to deceive her victims, particularly those who lost their love ones, by manipulating their sadness for her own gain. While it was implied that she did have psychic powers, Mrs. Reynolds would prefer to use deception to convince her victims, as long as it benefitted her.
Even worse, Reynolds was also revealed to be a ephebophilic sexual predator. She molested her young assistant, Nicholas Holland, and forced him into participating her crimes with it.
Trivia[]
- Her alias of Mrs. Reynolds implied that she was also based on the original novel's Mrs. Reynolds, the mother of the original Joyce and Leopold Reynolds (along with her eldest daughter Ann Reynolds who was omitted from both adaptations).
- Unlike Lanfranco Cassetti or Linnet Doyle, who were both rather close to their novel counterparts, Joyce was not a villain in the original novel, nor she was an adult.
- Instead, the original Joyce was only a problematic child who often boasted about her so-called tall tales, which often came from either fabrication or stealing other people's experience for herself. This led to her murder in Mrs. Drake's Halloween party when she falsely proclaimed that she saw a murder, something she stole from her best friend's own experience.
- As a result, Joyce is the first and thus far the only "villainous victim" character that received a complete rework in Kenneth Branagh's film adaptations, making a neutral character into a villain.
