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It was the abstractness and theatricality of the Playhouse series – now in its third run, with a cast as diverse as Matthew Perry and Cara Delevigne – that attracted Piper to it, along with the opportunity to work directly with two other actors, Lindsay Duncan and Ben Whishaw, who have won plaudits for their stagework. "I don't know why I'm always asked – I try not to overthink it," she laughs.
In what's becoming a "bit of a running theme", Piper is playing another prostitute. This month she will also star in Foxtrot, a 30-minute film written for the Sky Arts Playhouse Presents strand by young playwright Polly Stenham (who won rave reviews for her Royal Court debut That Face at the age of 19). I'm assuming that by now Piper has no problem with sex scenes. Nude or not, Piper manages to be both gregarious and vulnerable and steals the show in pretty much every scene she's in. It's a brilliant mash-up: she plays an Irish immigrant called Brona Croft who speaks with a thick Belfast accent. The rest of the roles are based on popular literary characters from the time: Dorian Gray, Mina Harker, Victor Frankenstein. It also features a roster of international stars, including Timothy Dalton, Josh Hartnett and Eva Green, who – with Piper – play the series' principal characters. Loads of sex." It certainly has more of the spirit of Game of Thrones than Downton Abbey (and, like GoT, it is filmed on an enormous set in Ireland). As Piper explains, it's "a more darkly dressed version" of a period drama: "Savage and gory. Set in Victorian London, Penny Dreadful is a big production, a 10-part thriller written by John Logan and executive produced by Sam Mendes.
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Just three years after hanging up the whip she wielded while playing hooker Belle de Jour in ITV's Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Piper is back simulating sex on film sets for a major new TV series. Penny Dreadful will premiere on Showtime in 2014.She's certainly played a few of them on screen. Juan Antonio Bayona ( The Impossible, The Orphanage) will direct the first two episodes. Wanna venture a guess as to who the other four antiheroes of horror could be?Ĭreated, written, and executive produced by three-time Oscar® nominee John Logan ( Hugo, The Aviator, Gladiator), and produced by Neal Street Productions’ Sam Mendes ( American Beauty, Skyfall) and Pippa Harris ( Revolutionary Road, Call The Midwife), Penny Dreadful will begin filming in London this Fall. So, will Russell Beale’s Egyptologist have a run-in with the Mummy? And is Kinnear’s mystery man Dracula? If so, then they, along with Frankenstein and his monster and Dorian Grey, will feature in four of the eight episodes.
McCrory ( Skyfall, Hugo) will play Madame Kali, a spiritualist Sapani ( Misfits, Ultimate Force) will portray Sembene, “an African warrior and longtime ally of Sir Malcolm” and Russell Beale ( The Hollow Crown, MI-5) will star as Ferdinand Lyle, “an eccentric Egyptologist.” Showtime also announced that Helen McCrory, Danny Sapani, and Simon Russell Beale have also signed on for Penny Dreadful. He will have the role of Sir Malcolm, “a hardened African explorer on a deeply personal quest.”
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The first actors to sign on for Penny Dreadful were Josh Hartnett ( Black Hawk Down, Lucky Number Slevin), who will play Ethan Chandler, “a charming American who finds himself trapped in the darkest corners of Victorian London,” and Eva Green ( Casino Royale, Dark Shadows), who will star as Vanessa Ives, “a seductive and formidable beauty full of secrets and danger.” Timothy Dalton joined the cast soon thereafter. Victor Frankenstein, and Rory Kinnear ( Skyfall, Quantum of Solace) as “an unnamed mysterious character of haunting intensity.” The eight-episode fright-fest will also star Reeve Carney ( The Tempest, Snow Falling on Cedars) as the supernaturally young Dorian Grey, Harry Treadaway ( The Lone Ranger, Control) as Dr.
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