‘Succession’s’ Hiam Abbass to Star in Danielle Arbid’s Age-Gap Romance ‘Love Conquers All’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent “Succession” star Hiam Abbass will play a role that is the polar opposite of Marcia Roy in French-Lebanese director Danielle Arbid’s age-gap drama “Love Conquers All.” The Palestinian actor — who in the HBO series played the third and final wife of billionaire Logan Roy — will next star as Susan, a 65-year-old impoverished widow living in Beirut.
There, she meets Osman, a young Sudanese immigrant worker without papers. They instantly fall in love. The “Love Conquers All” project is being shopped in Saudi Arabia at the Red Sea Film Festival co-production platform Red Sea Souk by producers Georges Schoucair and Omar El Kadi, who say this could be the first feature Abbass will appear in after “Succession.” The idea is that, while in “Succession” Abbass plays the shrewd wife of a very rich man, in “Love Conquers All” “the protagonists are both poor,” El Kadi told Variety. “What Danielle wants to avoid is to have a relationship driven by vested interests.
Him being with her because she is rich, or she being with him because he is young and for sex. Instead, it’s pure and naive love.” Paris-based actor Amine Benrachid (“La Voix Des Autres”) plays Osman. “She’s Palestinian, born in Lebanon, twice his age, forgotten in her well-ordered existence.
They instantly fall in love,” Arbid said in her director’s statement. Unable to marry because of his illegal status, Osman moves in with Susan.
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