EXCLUSIVE: Emma Laird will star in Mint, the upcoming BBC crime household drama, which is Scrapper director Charlotte Regan’s first TV collection.
Deadline can reveal Mayor Of Kingstown and The Brutalist actress Laird’s casting together with that of Sam Riley (Management), Laura Fraser (Higher Name Saul), Lewis Gribben (Someplace Boy), Lindsay Duncan (Sherwood) and Ben Coyle-Larner, also called musician Loyle Carner.
The casting information comes as manufacturing kicks off on the eight-part collection. It’s being made by Conclave producer Home Productions, which is backed by BBC Studios, alongside Jolyon Symonds’ Fearless Minds, which is a three way partnership with Banijay.
Regan created and wrote Mint and can direct. It’s billed as darkly comedian and unconventional drama a few crime household’s inside life.
On the centre of Mint is Shannon (Laird), the naïve and fiercely romantic daughter of the realm’s dominant crime household. Shannon is desperately looking for love within the shadow of her gangster father, Dylan (Riley), devoted mum Cat (Fraser), older brother Luke (Gribben) and the indomitable household matriarch, grandma Ollie (Duncan).
Having grown up protected throughout the surreal, but violent confines of the ‘household enterprise’, issues are shaken up when Arran – performed by appearing newcomer Coyle-Larner – arrives on the scene.
From left: Sam Riley, Laura Fraser, Lindsay Duncan, Ben Coyle-Larner and Lewis Gribben
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Regan paid tribute to her solid: “I had just a little cry the opposite day interested by how unimaginable this solid are. Absolute emotional wreck. However I actually can’t think about these characters being introduced into the world by higher human beings. Each single certainly one of them goes to smash it and I really feel so grateful to have all of them onboard.”
The collection was commissioned by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, and is filming in Glasgow, Scotland. “I’m over the moon that Charlotte has chosen to work with the BBC on her first TV collection,” she stated when the greenlight was introduced. Within the UK Mint might be on BBC One and iPlayer. BBC Studios is throughout worldwide gross sales.
Fearless Minds is the banner behind the film The Critic starring Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton and which premiered at TIFF. Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s movie and TV label Home, in the meantime, scored a BAFTA nom for an additional BBC drama that it produces, Sherwood, this week.
