Bella Ramsey, star of HBO’s The Final of Us, will set their sights on a brand new drama sequence as Channel 4 confirms the younger actor has been solid in Daisy Haggard’s Maya.
Ramsey will co-lead the solid of the six-part present, created by BAFTA-nominated Haggard (Again to Life, Breeders). Haggard will even star as Ramsey’s mom and on the identical time, make her directorial debut. Jamie Donoughue co-directs.
The Recreation of Thrones breakout will play the titular Maya, teenage daughter of Anna (Haggard). Compelled right into a witness safety programme to flee a life-threatening hazard, Anna and Maya go away their London lives behind, taking up new identities and relocating to a small rural city in Scotland. “As they attempt to regulate to their new actuality, the trauma of their previous continues to hang-out them within the type of two hitmen intent on monitoring them down,” a plot synopsis reads. “Because the partitions shut in, it turns into clear {that a} harmful determine from their previous continues to be a looming risk.”
The undertaking shall be filmed solely on location in Scotland later this yr, with additional casting bulletins coming in the end.
Ramsey stated: “This story and these characters Daisy has created are so alive, nuanced, wickedly humorous and scarily darkish. Each character jumps off the web page, the dialogue is extremely witty and I’m so excited to get to play Maya reverse Daisy’s Anna.”
Haggard, author, creator and co-director, stated: “Ever since I first dreamt up this present, there has solely ever been one Maya… I wrote the half with Bella so clearly in my head and I actually nonetheless can’t consider they wish to be a part of it. Bella is pure magic, simply insanely proficient, and I can’t look ahead to us to work collectively. I’m additionally thrilled to be taking the leap into directing, and excited to have the chance to co-direct the sequence alongside the good Jamie Donoughue.”
Maya was commissioned for Channel 4 by Ollie Madden, outgoing director of Film4 and Channel 4 Drama, and Gemma Boswell, commissioning editor, drama.
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