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EXCLUSIVE: Rivals prima Alex Hassell and Contagion‘s Jennifer Ehle person joined nan formed of First Woman, nan lunar thriller bid we revealed news of past week.
They will look alongside stars Andrea Riseborough and Ashley Walters successful nan six-part drama, which comes ITV Studios-owned Mammoth Screen, Alcon Television and Germany’s ZDF.
The series, from Lydia Yeoman and George Oakes, follows Claire Reith (Riseborough), a biologist successful a groundbreaking investigation task and nan first female to group ft connected nan moon, who disappears, throwing suspicion connected her chap astronauts and a rival Chinese base. Thousands of miles distant connected Earth, her husband, Ben (Walters), searches for nan truth. The action switches betwixt Mission Control and nan lunar aboveground arsenic nan title against clip builds.
Ehle will play Helen Sadler, an interrogator pinch UK Space Flight Authority who is tasked pinch uncovering what happened to Claire. Sceptical that nan astronaut near nan lunar module of her ain freewill, she originates an enquiry that exposes secrets wrong Mission Control.
Hassell will play UK Prime Minister Christopher Scott, a polish and pragmatic centrist leader who believes Britain must compete connected nan world stage. As nan situation deepens, his position becomes progressively precarious and he has to determine really acold he will spell for his individual ambitions.
Filming is underway successful Belfast, pinch support from Northern Ireland Screen. Studio Ulster, nan UK’s largest virtual accumulation facility, is being utilized for nan satellite guidelines and lunar landscape. Yeoman (Curfew) is penning alongside George Oakes, who had nan original idea, and Ben Schiffer. Unit VFZ is moving intimately pinch Mammoth Screen and Alcon connected ocular effects, while Poli Productions is moving pinch head Philip Martin and accumulation designer Gillian Devenney connected nan lunar vistas.
Mammoth Screen’s Damien Timmer is exec producing alongside James Gandhi, Martin, Oakes and Yeoman. Mammoth Screen’s Creative Director Rebecca Keane oversaw development. ITV’s Director of Drama, Polly Hill, who commissioned nan show for ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV Player, will oversee nan accumulation from nan broadcaster’s perspective. Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove, Scott Parish, Diego Piasek, Steven Johnson and Ben Roberts service arsenic EPs for Alcon, which is co-financing nan bid alongside supplier ITV Studios.
Ehle is known for her domiciled successful nan BBC’s 1995 type of Pride and Prejudice, for which she won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, and has movie credits for nan likes of The King’s Speech, Zero Dark Thirty, nan Fifty Shades movies, Contagion and She Said. On nan TV front, she appeared successful NBC’s The Blacklist, CBS’s The Good Fight, Showtime miniseries The The Comey Rule and Prime Video’s Dead Ringers. On stage, she won nan Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing and won a Tony for different Stoppard collaboration, The Coast of Utopia. More recently, she was formed successful Paramount+’s 1923 and appeared successful Mark Pellington’s conspiracy thriller Lone Wolf.
Hassell is known for his domiciled of rakish erstwhile Olympic showjumper-turned-politician Rupert Campbell-Black successful Disney+ ‘bonkbuster’ Rivals, which is group to return for a 2nd play this year. He has besides appeared successful BBC bid Bonkers, BBC-PBS co-production The Miniaturist, Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop, HBO’s His Dark Materials, Netflix’s Everything Now and Prime Video’s The Boys. On nan large screen, he had roles successful George Clooney’s Suburbicon, Netflix’s Locked In and David Jonsson-starrer Wasteman.
