EXCLUSIVE: Narges Rashidi (Gangs of London, The Girlfriend Experience) and Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale, Shakespeare in Love) are the actors who have been secretly portraying Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian charity worker falsely accused of spying and detained in Iran for six years, and her husband Richard Ratcliffe, who campaigned tirelessly for her release, in a TV drama, Deadline can reveal.
Earlier this month, my Deadline colleagues Jake Kanter and Max Goldbart broke the news that the BBC had commissioned the factual drama based on the chilling real-life story of Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Richard Ratcliffe.
The actors have been shooting the four-part BBC factual drama under wraps for the past three weeks on locations in the west of England and in Europe.
Because of the story’s sensitivity, BAFTA-winning director Philippa Lowthorpe has been filming against a backdrop of strict secrecy.
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