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Anjelica Huston, Oliver Jackson-Cohen to Star in Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero for BritBox/BBC
By Matt Webb Mitovich,
2024-06-05
Academy Award winner Anjelica Huston, Mike Flanagan repertory company member Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Ella Lily Hyland ( Fifteen-Love ) are set to star in Towards Zero , a three-part adaptation of the 1944 Agatha Christie mystery novel.
The BBC production is now filming in Bristol and Devon, and will stream Stateside on BritBox.
Adapted by BAFTA-nominated Rachel Bennette and directed by the Olivier Award winner Sam Yates ( Magpie ), Towards Zero is set in England circa 1936, where after a scandalous celebrity divorce, British tennis star Nevile Strange (played by Jackson-Cohen) and ex-wife Audrey (Hyland) make the questionable decision to spend a summer together at Gull’s Point, the coastal estate of Nevile’s aunt, Lady Tressilian (Huston).
“With unfinished business between the former childhood sweethearts, plus the presence of Nevile’s new wife Kay ( Sex Education ‘s Mimi Keene), tensions are running high,” the synopsis tells us. “Add to this a long-suffering lady’s companion, a mysterious gentleman’s valet, an exiled cousin with a grudge, a venerable family lawyer, an inquisitive orphan and a French con man, and soon there will be murder. A troubled detective must rediscover his purpose to untangle a toxic web of jealousy, deceit and dysfunction. Can he solve the crime before another victim meets their death?
Top row: Clune, Doherty, Farthing and Gharbia; Middle row: Hugill, Huston, Hyland and Jackson-Cohen; Bottom row: Keene, Peters, Rhys and Vasan
Towards Zero will also star Jackie Clune ( Motherland ), Grace Doherty ( Call the Midwife ), Jack Farthing ( Rain Dogs ), Khalil Gharbia ( Mary & George ), Adam Hugill ( Sherwood ), Clarke Peters ( The Wire ), Emmy winner Matthew Rhys ( The Americans ) and Oliver Award-winner Anjana Vasan ( Black Mirror: Demon 79 ).
Says Huston in a statement, “I have long been a fan of Agatha Christie and the murder-mystery genre and always love the opportunity to film in England. I am thrilled to be working with director Sam Yates and this wonderful cast, and excited to play the clever and dignified Camilla, Lady Tressilian.”
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