Florisa Kamara Joins Eddie Redmayne In ‘The Day Of The Jackal’ Series For Peacock
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: EastEnders alumna Florisa Kamara is set as a series regular opposite Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch in Peacock‘s upcoming series The Day Of The Jackal, Deadline has learned.
The series is based on the Frederick Forsyth novel and 1973 film adaptation from Universal Pictures. However, it has been reimagined as a contemporary story set amidst the current turbulent geo-political landscape and will delve deeper into the chameleon like ‘anti-hero’.
Redmayne plays The Jackal, a professional assassin hired by a French paramilitary dissident to kill French President Charles de Gaulle in 1962.
Lynch portrays law enforcement agent Bianca. We hear Kamara will play Lynch’s daughter Jasmine. Top Boy creator and writer Ronan Bennett writes and serves as showrunner.
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