Joe Barton explains why he prefers spooks in love over breathless games of cat-and-mouse in the six-parter series, which has already been renewed for a second season.
It rarely ends well for spies who are in love in Hollywood movies and TV series. Inevitably, they betray or shoot their partners out of cold-hearted duty.
Barton says he was inspired to write his surprisingly reassuring drama about friendship and sacrifice between Helen and Sam by a letter to a newspaper advice column he read where a woman whose husband had died discovered he’d been in a second marriage all along, and in reality her own relationship had been an affair. “She was struggling with the fact that this man she loved had passed away, but she couldn’t tell anyone or share her grief.
The result with Helen is a woman playing a pretend wife, but who is also slightly a real wife, and she falls deeply in love with someone else who might not be real. And once Whishaw came on board, Barton had the making of a deep and platonic friendship on screen between Helen and Sam as they question their pasts and life choices while uncovering a vast, interconnected conspiracy linking the murky London underworld to a looming global crisis.
“Ben was chosen because he’s just got a sort of mix of soulfulness and humor and we thought there could be a really good chemistry between him and Keira, which luckily there was,” Barton recounted.also stars Sarah Lancashire, Luther Ford, Tracey Ullman, Kathryn Hunter and Omari Douglas. The Sister and Noisy Bear series is also executive produced by Barton, Jane Featherstone, Chris Fry and Knightley, with Harry Munday producing.
Netflix, meanwhile, already ordered a second season of the show ahead of its premiere, which Barton is busily working on as another Christmas approaches.. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. // This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the GoogleThe Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2024 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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