BBC releases first look at Jamie Dornan and Matthew Rhys in Death And Nightingales

The three-part drama will air later this year
First look: Ann Skelly and Jamie Dornan star in the BBC Two drama
BBC
Natasha Sporn14 August 2018

The BBC has released the first look at new drama Death and Nightingales starring Jamie Dornan and Matthew Rhys.

The adaptation of the 1992 novel sees The Fall director Allan Cubitt reunite with Dornan – who starred as Paul Spector in the British-Irish crime drama – for a three-part drama.

Based on Eugene McCabe’s modern Irish classic, Ann Skelly takes centre stage as Beth Winters, a troubled 23-year-old who attempted to escape the confines of her life and relationship with her father Billy, played by Rhys.

Winters’ true desire is to join charming and handsome Liam, played by Fifty Shades actor Dornan, but the path to controlling her own destiny is not as clear cut as Winters would like.

Matthew Rhys: The actor plays Billy in the adaptation
BBC

Set in the beautiful haunting countryside of Fermanagh in 1885, Death and Nightingales is a story of love, deception, betrayal and revenge as Winters tries to scurry away from her Protestant life and into the arms of Dornan’s character.

Speaking of his role, Dornan said that he was “thrilled” to be working with Cubitt again and to return to Northern Ireland, as well as star on the BBC again.

Skelly, star of Irish soap Red Rock, added: “Playing such a strong character as Beth Winters is truly an actor’s dream, and a fantastically intense challenge to be given the opportunity to play.

“And to get to work with such brilliant actors like Matthew and Jamie, and a director like Allan Cubitt, is just surreal to me. I can’t wait to start!”

Death and Nightingales will air on BBC Two later this year.

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