Yahoo Lifestyle ‘Baby Reindeer’s Jessica Gunning Rounds Out Main Cast Of Steven Soderbergh’s ‘The Christophers’
EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Gunning has been tapped to join Ian McKellen, Michaela Cole, and James Corden in The Christophers, rounding out the quadruple leading cast for Steven Soderbergh’s dark comedy.
This marks Gunning’s first new role announced after her Emmy win for her role as Martha in Netflix’s Baby Reindeer. The seven-part stalker drama, created by and starring Richard Gadd, was a standout at this past year’s Emmys, with additional awards won in Outstanding Limited Series and Writing for a Limited Series, and also brought Gunning a Golden Globe, among other accolades.
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Shooting this month in London, The Christophers follows the estranged children of a once-famous artist who hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be discovered and sold after his death. Script is by Ed Solomon, Soderbergh’s collaborator on projects like No Sudden Move and Full Circle.
Department M, run by Michael Schaefer and Mike Larocca, will finance the film, with Schaefer and Larocca to serve as executive producers. We were first to report on the project in December.
In addition to Baby Reindeer, Gunning’s TV credits include Prime Video’s The Outlaws, for which she recently returned for Season 3, along with the Channel 4 series Back, and Sky Atlantic’s Fortitude. She’s also been seen in the Golden Globe-nominated film Pride and starred alongside Cate Blanchett in When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other for the National Theatre.
Gunning has just wrapped a role opposite Rebecca Ferguson, Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy in The Magic Faraway Tree, based on the children’s book series by Enid Blyton. She is represented by UTA, as well as Markham, Froggatt & Irwin.
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