‘History Of A Pleasure Seeker’: Olumide Olorunfemi & Bebe Bettencourt Join Hulu Pilot
deadline.comHulu pilot History Of A Pleasure Seeker continues to add to its cast.Olumide Olorunfemi, who recently featured in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and Bebe Bettencourt, who starred in Australian drama series Eden, have joined.The project, which is based on Richard Mason’s novel, is a musical drama set in Amsterdam in 1907 — a tale of a charismatic young man’s explosive adventures through all the temptations of the Belle Époque.The book, which was published in 2012 by Penguin Random House, follows Piet Barol, who has an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it.
When his mother dies, Piet applies for a job as tutor to the troubled son of Europe’s leading hotelier – a child who refuses to leave his family’s mansion on one of Amsterdam’s grandest canals.
As Piet enters this glittering world, he learns its secrets and finds his life transformed.Carla Woodcock and Callum Kerr star.Olorunfemi plays Sisanda, a Xhosa woman raised in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, who is used to being the most admired young lady in her village.
She did not imagine she’d spend her life cleaning other people’s floors.Meanwhile, Bettencourt plays Louisa, who has her father’s entrepreneurial instincts, and is exasperated by the constraints of her social position.
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