Julie Walters And Clarke Peters To Star In Channel 4 Death Pact Drama ‘Truelove’ From ‘End Of The F***ing World’ Producer Clerkenwell Films
deadline.comJulie Walters (National Treasure) and Clarke Peters (The Wire) are fronting a dark, irreverent drama based around a death pact for broadcaster Channel 4.They will star in Clerkenwell Films’ six-part Truelove, which is written by from Iain Weatherby (Humans) and co-created with Charlie Covell.
She wrote the tonally similar Channel 4 and Netflix drama The End Of The F***ing World — another Clerkenwell production.With a core cast in their 60s and 70s, Channel 4 says the series “breaks the rules for older characters on screen and flips ageist tropes on their head in a series which promises thrilling twists and turns, irreverent humour and passionate romance.”Walter will play Phil, an ex-senior police chief enjoying a comfortable if boring retirement, and Peters plays Ken, a divorcee and ex-special forces vet who feels similarly at sea.
The pair are childhood sweetheart who never quite managed to forget each other.At a friend’s funeral many years later, they and a gang of old friends, are reunited.
At the wake, with nostalgia and booze flowing in equal measure, talk soon takes a meditative turn and the group discuss what an ‘ideal’ death might look like.
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