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EXCLUSIVE: Slow Horses’ Ruth Bradley is group to prima alongside Bill Burr and Chris O’Dowd in Bender, nan coming-of-age drama shooting successful Ireland this summer, which we announced past fall.
Described as Superbad meets Derry Girls, Bender is based connected nan late-’70s, post-punk Dublin coming-of-age experiences of Adrian Cunningham, who penned nan book pinch Ciaran Bartlett. Set against nan frenzy surrounding an impending papal visit, nan communicative follows a suburban Dublin family navigating mounting financial pressures amid a bleak economical recession.
Bradley plays a sharp-tongued, no-nonsense matriarch trying to support her family together and vicinity rumors astatine bay while her hubby Tom, played by O’Dowd, wrestles pinch joblessness and wounded pride.
As antecedently announced, Burr plays a gruff American record-store proprietor who convinces a ragtag pack of teenage misfits that their best, and perchance only, chance to suffer their virginity earlier graduating precocious schoolhouse is astatine a monolithic open-air wide for nan visiting Pope.
Pluribus‘ Adam Bernstein is directing, pinch Stephen McCormack of Reflektor Media and Craig Verdon producing successful business pinch character Lesley-Ann Brandt (Presumed Innocent, Lucifer) done The Mal Picture Company and Cunningham done Martello Films. Burr is serving arsenic an executive producer.
A three-time victor of Best Actress astatine nan Irish Film & Television Awards, Bradley is champion known for her domiciled of MI5 supplier Emma Flyte successful Apple’s Emmy and BAFTA-winning spy thriller, Slow Horses, other Gary Oldman and Kristen Thomas. She collapsed retired pinch a domiciled successful nan Irish crime drama Love/Hate, pinch further credits including nan BAFTA-nominated The Gold, Humans, The Fall, Guilt and Ted Lasso.
The Dublin-born character is represented by 42 and Anonymous Content.
