‘History Of A Pleasure Seeker’: Lesley-Ann Brandt To Star In Hulu Pilot
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Lucifer’s Lesley-Ann Brandt is joining Hulu musical pilot History of a Pleasure Seeker.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.Brandt will play Jacobina in the project.
Powerful, beautiful and always in control, Jacobina has achieved everything her privileged childhood taught her to wish for.
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