Richard Armitage, Michelle Keegan, Joanna Lumley Lead Cast of New Netflix Series ‘Fool Me Once’
variety.comK.J. Yossman Richard Armitage (“The Hobbit” trilogy), Michelle Keegan (“Brassic”) and “Absolutely Fabulous” star Joanna Lumley are set to lead the cast of new Netflix series “Fool Me Once.” Based on the Harlan Coben novel of the same name and produced by Nicola Shindler’s Quay Street Productions, the eight-part series stars Keegan (pictured above on set) as Maya Stern, a woman who is struggling to resume her life after her husband Joe (Armitage) is brutally murdered.
But things take a turn after Maya spots someone on the nanny cam she has installed throughout her home to keep an eye on her young daughter…someone who is supposed to be dead.
Meanwhile Maya’s niece and nephew are also reeling from the murder of their mother several months earlier and set out to find out the truth.
Could the two tragedies be related? Lumley stars as Judith, Joe’s protective mother. Also part of the cast are Emmett J.Scanlan (“Kin”) as Shane Tessier, Dino Fetscher (“Years and Years”) as Marty McGreggor and “Ali & Ava’s” Adeel Akhtar, who plays Detective Sergeant Sami Kierce, the lead investigator on Joe’s murder and a man grappling with secrets of his own. “Fool Me Once” is the eighth project to emerge from Coben’s partnership with Netflix, which has seen his works adapted in four languages.
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