Paapa Essiedu, who has simply landed the position of Snape in HBO’s Harry Potter, is main Channel 4 drama collection Falling from Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne and It’s a Sin director Peter Hoar.
Scorching property Essiedu will play Catholic priest David reverse Keeley Hawes, who’s devoted nun Anna. Each are deeply dedicated to their work within the church and of their group. Neither are anticipated to fall in love. However once they do, each are pressured to wrestle with what it means for them, their vows, and their relationship with God.
Additionally becoming a member of the forged of Falling are Rakie Ayola (The Pact, Kaos), Jason Watkins (Coma, The Misplaced Honour of Christopher Jefferies), Niamh Cusack (The Virtues, Heartbeat), Adrian Scarborough (Gavin and Stacey, The Chelsea Detective), David Dawson (My Policeman, The Final Kingdom), Susan Brown (Mr Bates vs The Publish Workplace, It’s A Sin), Sandra Voe (Howards Finish, Vera Drake) and TV newcomers Holly Rhys and Shayde Sinclair.
Essiedu mentioned: “Falling is a narrative that has Jack Thorne’s singular expertise of mining the chic out of the odd operating all over. I can’t wait to work with Keeley, Peter and the remainder of the group to convey this world to life.”
Essiedu has simply been confirmed to play potions grasp Snape in HBO’s decade-long Harry Potter remake following months of hypothesis. He has just lately appeared in The Outrun, Black Doves and Black Mirror. Thorne is coming off the again of the runaway success of Netflix’s Adolescence, which has turn into the streamer’s third hottest English-language present of all time within the area of only a few weeks. Bodyguard star Hawes can quickly be quickly in Amazon thriller The Murderer reverse Freddie Highmore.
Touchdown Essiedu and Hawes is an enormous coup for Channel 4 and new movie and TV drama chief Ollie Madden. He unearthed Falling on a splashy slate earlier this yr that includes A Lady of Substance remake and a Common adaptation of The Rachel Incident.
Falling is government produced by George Ormond, George Faber and Thorne. Joe Donaldson (Cobra, Ripper Road, Peaky Blinders) is the producer and Hoar (It’s A Sin, The Final of Us, Umbrella Academy) will direct. Falling has been commissioned for Channel 4 by Madden, Director of Film4 and Channel 4 Drama and Gwawr Lloyd, Commissioning Editor, Drama. Falling shall be distributed internationally by Banijay Rights.
