Toni Collette signs for Netflix-BBC drama, Wanderlust.
Upcoming drama will explore whether lifelong monogamy is possible "or even desirable."
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Toni Collette has signed onto a BBC-Netflix co-production, Wanderlust.
The six part series, to screen globally on Netflix outside of the UK, is described as “an exploration of the relationships of a multi-generational family” that “asks whether lifelong monogamy is possible – or even desirable.”
Written by playwright Nick Payne (Constellations) and directed by Luke Snellin (The A Word), it hails from production company Drama Republic (Doctor Foster, The Honourable Woman).
Joining Collette is Steven Mackintosh (Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, The Halcyon), Zawe Ashton (Fresh Meat) and Royce Pierreson (Line of Duty).
Collette plays Joy Richards, a therapist “trying to find a way to keep her spark with her husband alive after a cycling accident causes them to reassess their relationship,” according to a show description. “As we meet her family, friends, neighbours and clients, remarkable yet relatable stories of love, lust and forbidden desire emerge.”
“I am honoured and thrilled to work with Nick Payne’s wonderful words on Wanderlust,” said Collette. “It is an authentic and revolutionary story about relationships, sex, love and all the things we really care about. I could not be more excited.”
Filming is currently underway in Manchester.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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This is the kind of series that ABC makes too. So maybe we will see more of this type of show on ABC in the future.
Yet another example of the diversity of Netflix’s co-production diversity, especially when making local content in countries that uses its service. I note the mention of Stan Lee’s Lucky Man which is still not available in Australia as far as I know it being an exclusive on the Sky Network, perhaps Foxtel could look at releasing that show.
Driven by BBC. Netflix has joined as partner.