Anjelica Huston, Oliver Jackson-Cohen to Star in Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero for BritBox/BBC
Academy Award winner Anjelica Huston, Mike Flanagan repertory company member Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Ella Lily Hyland (Fifteen-Love) are set to star in Towards Zero, a three-part adaptation of the 1944 Agatha Christie mystery novel.
The BBC production is now filming in Bristol and Devon, and will stream Stateside on BritBox.
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Adapted by BAFTA-nominated Rachel Bennette and directed by the Olivier Award winner Sam Yates (Magpie), Towards Zero is set in England circa 1936, where after a scandalous celebrity divorce, British tennis star Nevile Strange (played by Jackson-Cohen) and ex-wife Audrey (Hyland) make the questionable decision to spend a summer together at Gull’s Point, the coastal estate of Nevile’s aunt, Lady Tressilian (Huston).
“With unfinished business between the former childhood sweethearts, plus the presence of Nevile’s new wife Kay (Sex Education‘s Mimi Keene), tensions are running high,” the synopsis tells us. “Add to this a long-suffering lady’s companion, a mysterious gentleman’s valet, an exiled cousin with a grudge, a venerable family lawyer, an inquisitive orphan and a French con man, and soon there will be murder. A troubled detective must rediscover his purpose to untangle a toxic web of jealousy, deceit and dysfunction. Can he solve the crime before another victim meets their death?
Towards Zero will also star Jackie Clune (Motherland), Grace Doherty (Call the Midwife), Jack Farthing (Rain Dogs), Khalil Gharbia (Mary & George), Adam Hugill (Sherwood), Clarke Peters (The Wire), Emmy winner Matthew Rhys (The Americans) and Oliver Award-winner Anjana Vasan (Black Mirror: Demon 79).
Says Huston in a statement, “I have long been a fan of Agatha Christie and the murder-mystery genre and always love the opportunity to film in England. I am thrilled to be working with director Sam Yates and this wonderful cast, and excited to play the clever and dignified Camilla, Lady Tressilian.”
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