CBS Studios & BBC Drama ‘King & Conqueror’ Rounds Out Cast & Wraps Shooting

Jesse Whittock
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UPDATE, 8.12 a.m. PT: Leo Legrand has been added to the cast. He will play William’s cowardly half-brother, who must be kept on a leash.

PREVIOUSLY, 6 a.m. PT: Shooting on the CBS Studios and BBC period drama series King & Conqueror has wrapped in Iceland, with six more cast members unveiled.

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Elander Moore, (Kaos, Interview with the Vampire), Indy Lewis (Industry, La Fortuna), Jason Forbes (My Lady Jane, A Gentleman in Moscow), Ines Asserson (Royalteen, Skam), Sveinn ólafur Gunnarsson (Heartstone, Summerlight… And Then Comes the Night) and Ingvar Sigurdsson (The Northman, Godland) have joined the cast of the period how, which is from Michael Robert Johnson.

They join the likes of James Norton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Emily Beecham, Clémence Poésy, Eddie Marsan and Juliet Stevenson in the series, which is set in 11th-century Britain, where Harold (Norton) faces a threat to his throne from the ambitious Duke of Normandy, William (Coster-Waldau).

Moore plays the power-hungry Morcar, the son of the Earl of Mercia, while Lewis plays the sheltered Margaret. Forbes is Thane Thomas, a loyal Wessex housecarl, and Assertion is Judith, the cousin of William’s wife. Gunnarsson plays fearsome Viking warrior Hardrada and Sigurdsson is Fitzosbern, replacing Joseph Mawle.

Production has completed in Iceland, with the series set for BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK. Rabbit Track Pictures, The Development Partnership, Shepherd Content, RVK Studios and CBS Studios are producing, in association with the BBC. Paramount Global Content Distribution distributes outside of UK and Ireland.

Norton and Kitty Kaletsky are executive producers for Rabbit Track Pictures, Baltasar Kormákur for RVK Studios, Robert Taylor for The Development Partnership, Dave Clarke and Richard Halliwell for Shepherd Content, and Lindsey Martin for CBS Studios. Ed Clarke and Coster-Waldau are also EPs.

King and Conqueror is the story of “a clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for a thousand years, the roots of which stretch back decades and extend out through a pair of interconnected family dynasties, struggling for power across two countries and a raging sea,” its producers say. We first reported on it back in November.

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