Gillian Anderson is leading a Channel 4 drama adaptation of Louise Kennedy’s Women’s Prize for Fiction- shortlisted Trespasses.
The Scoop and Crown star will play Gina, the mother of protagonist Cushla, a ‘glorious wreck’ who is constantly sparring with her daughter.
Cushla is being played by Lola Petticrew (Bloodlands) and Tom Cullen is Michael, her love interest. The novel is set in 1975 near Belfast, as Catholic schoolteacher Cushla meets the older Protestant married man, who often defends IRA suspects.
Trespasses is being produced by BAFTA award-winning and double Oscar-nominated Wildgaze Films (Brooklyn, An Education) and is being adapted for the screen in her first lead writing credit by Ailbhe Keogan (Bad Sisters, Run & Jump).
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