All posts tagged: Lesley Manville

Lesley Manville Joins Brett Goldstein in ‘Escorted’ at Prime Video

Lesley Manville Joins Brett Goldstein in ‘Escorted’ at Prime Video

Prime Video‘s comedy Escorted, starring and created by Brett Goldstein, is adding Lesley Manville to its cast. The newly crowned Tony Award winner will play the mother of Goldstein’s character in the series. Her casting marks a return to Prime Video for Manville, who also stars in the Amazon-owned streamer’s Citadel. Escorted, which Prime Video ordered to series late last year, stars Goldstein (Ted Lasso, Shrinking) as Denny, a divorced dad in Manhattan who accidentally becomes a male escort. Prime Video describes the show as a “romantic comedy about sexual dynamics, keeping secrets, and whether real intimacy can ever be bought.” Manville (The Crown, Phantom Thread) will play Terri, Denny’s mother and a “charisma bomb” cabaret singer. Her character is a force of nature with a voice to match. Manville won a Tony Award on Sunday for best lead actress in a play for Oedipus. She was nominated for an Oscar in 2018 for her role in Phantom Thread; her recent credits also include FX’s Grotesquerie, the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, Mrs. Harris …

Dance of Death: Hell is other people and sometimes the person you’re married to

Dance of Death: Hell is other people and sometimes the person you’re married to

The action, shifted forward to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, has an airless intensity many of us will recognise from lockdown. “There’s so much hate in here you can hardly breathe,” says Kurt, who is there to enforce social restrictions, including masks. Hell is other people. Especially, in some cases, the person you’re married to. (Not you, obviously, darling, if you’re reading this…) Source link