Emma Laird To Star In ‘Mint’; Cameras Roll On ‘Scrapper’ Director Charlotte Regan’s Family Crime Drama For The BBC
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Emma Laird will star in Mint, the upcoming BBC crime family drama, which is Scrapper director Charlotte Regan’s first TV series.
Deadline can reveal Mayor Of Kingstown and The Brutalist actress Laird’s casting along with that of Sam Riley (Firebrand), Laura Fraser (Breaking Bad), Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy), Lindsay Duncan (Sherwood) and Ben Coyle-Larner, also known as musician Loyle Carner.
The casting news comes as production kicks off on the eight-part series. It is being made by Conclave producer House Productions, which is backed by BBC Studios, alongside Jolyon Symonds’ Fearless Minds, which is a joint venture with Banijay.
Regan created and wrote Mint and will direct. It is billed as darkly comic and unconventional drama about a crime family’s inner life.
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