Leslie Mann is set to play the mayor of Seattle and a rising star in the political world in the Amazon's upcoming globe-spanning thriller 'The Power'
star will play the mayor of Seattle and a rising star in the political world in the thriller, based on Naomi Alderman's novel of the same title. The series takes place in a world where all teenage girls across the world suddenly develop the power to electrocute people at will. They soon learn they can awaken the power in older women as well, and soon enough every woman in the world can do it. And then everything is different.
Mann's Margot Cleary-Lopez is vital, charming and incredibly smart, but before the Power was a woman operating in a man's world. She comes to see that power resides in strength rather than authority, and as her career takes off, her husband, Rob, and daughter Jos privately feel the effects of her success most keenly.
Other lead characters in the series include Allie, an American foster kid who reinvents herself as a faith leader; Roxy, the daughter of a London crime boss who revels in her new abilities; and Tunde, a Nigerian journalist reporting on the seismic change taking place in the world. Alderman is adapting her novel and executive producing the series, working with an all-women writers room that also includes co-exec producer Claire Wilson , co-EP and story consultant Sarah Quintrell , Whit Anderson (
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