As the star of BritBox’s “Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy” Morfydd Clark is far, far from her ethereal Galadriel in Amazon Prime’s reboot of the Tolkien tales.

Clark’s stylish Bridget Conway, soon to be wed in her cozy 1950s English village, is both an ally of Luke Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson), the amateur detective who arrives to pursue the case, and a suspect in the town’s plague of many murders.

Clark, 34, somewhat surprisingly, finds the legendary and enduringly popular crime novelist amusing.

Christie is enjoyed, the Welsh native said from London in a Zoom interview, “Because her observation of people is just so perfect and we are just so hilarious and weird!

“She could really hone in on the eccentricities of people who appear more normal than the classic eccentric. Her fascination with people is going to last forever because there’s something so funny about the way that she looks at the world.

“She’s like, ‘Anyone could be capable of murder!’ which I think will always be quite hilarious. Everyone’s a suspect.

“Also, what I find funny about ‘Murder Is Easy,’ there’s an incredibly high body count — even for an Agatha Christie. So everyone’s a suspect and everyone’s at risk of being murdered. Nobody’s safe in any way.

“What I find also funny about her is that she obviously thinks the murderer is bad. But she hates when a murderer is trying to frame an idiot. And that’s where I see myself.”

“Murder,” published in 1939, is notable for the author’s replacing her brilliant detective, the fussy Belgian Hercule Poirot, with Fitzwilliam as her sleuth on the scene.

“Murder” was previously adapted in a 2009 TV version with Benedict Cumberbatch in the role.  Now Fitzwilliam is a Nigerian émigré working in London’s diplomatic office.

“Christie is so part of our culture, it makes a lot of sense to keep re-exploring and looking at her through different lenses. And it’s a particularly fascinating time in British culture,” Clark said.

“The 50s was a time with lots of changes, changes of culture. Also, a time where it wasn’t necessarily easy to be an African man in a small village in England. That’s really interesting that that’s being explored.

“For Bridget, as a woman, things are starting to change. She knows that the currency of women at that time means they have very little power. We’re on the brink of the 60s where things will happen in terms of women’s rights and what they can do.

“I don’t think she can quite imagine all that from where she is, but she feels the bubbling of it.”

“Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy” airs March 1 on BritBox

David Jonsson plays Luke Fitzwilliam in Agatha Christie’s “Murder is Easy.” (Photo courtesy BritBox)