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Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman will play the role of husband and wife in the new HBO series "The Undoing".
The star of the movie "Bridget Jones & # 39; Diary", 58, and the 51-year-old Australian star play Grace and Grant Sachs in David E. Kelley's screen adaptation of the 2014 volume from Jean Hanff Korelitz, "You Should Have Know".
The drama recounts the unfortunate events following Grant's sudden death in a public disaster and follows Grace as she works hard to rebuild her life and that of her son.
For Hugh, this is his first lead role on television in the United States and stems from his turn hailed by Jeremy Thorp in "A Very English Scandal" from the BBC.
While Nicole is currently working on the second season of HBO's Big Little Lies, she will be the executive producer of "The Undoing", alongside
Per Saari through their own films Blossom and Bruna Papandrea from Made Up Stories.
Susanne Bier is at the helm of the limited series of six episodes.
Meanwhile, Hugh, the star of "Paddington 2", had previously admitted that he thought Stephen Frears would "spit" on his previous film roles when he was working for the first time with the director.
The two men teamed up for a "very British scandal", which tells the true story of the political drama in which British MP and Liberal Party leader Jeremy was tried in 1979 on charges of hiring a man. Murderer to murder his ex-lover, Norman Scott, a relationship that was played out at a time when homobaduality was illegal in the UK.
Previously, they had worked together on the 2016 biopic drama "Florence Foster Jenkins". Grant admitted before his first meeting with Frears that he thought he would have hated his romantic comedy roles in films such as "Notting Hill" and "Love Actually" – but everything "worked well".
He told BANG Showbiz, "It's really charming, in any case, I'm always surprised by Stephen, he was hooked up and left in independent cinema, I did these commercial romantic comedies that I thought he'd probably spit on. but he was probably doing it too, but suddenly he started saying, "Let's make a movie together," and we worked on "Florence Foster Jenkins." Everything went very well and we we are loved, then he said: "What is that this telly we should take a look at. He has a very good taste in material, I always think that I have an excellent taste but his is even better, he is very good at finding good projects. "
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