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Pontypool-born actor Luke Evans will play a leading role in the upcoming ITV drama<\/p>\n
A new TV drama starring Pontypool-born actor Luke Evans and Bafta award-winning actress Joanna Scanlan has started filming in Wales.<\/p>\n
The Party, based on a novel by Elizabeth Day, is a five-part series focusing on a journalist called Martin Gilmour, played by Evans, shaped by his lifelong friendship with wealthy politician Ben Fitzmaurice, played by Tom Cullen.<\/p>\n
The drama will move between Ben’s lavish birthday party and a police investigation that follows, with flashbacks to the pair’s party days.<\/p>\n
Evans said the drama is a “gripping exploration of loyalty, class, and the truths we hide, and I can’t wait for audiences to experience it”.<\/p>\n
“From the moment I read Elizabeth Day’s novel, I knew it had the makings of something truly special for television,” he added.<\/p>\n
“To now be bringing The Party to life \u2013 both as an actor and as an executive producer through Stoic Productions \u2013 is incredibly rewarding.”<\/p>\n
The date the series, which will be broadcast on ITV1 and STV, is yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n
The plot will see Martin win a scholarship to an elite boarding school, where he meets Ben, after being raised alone by his working class mother, Sylvia, who is played by Riot Women star Joanna Scanlan.<\/p>\n
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Tom Cullen will play wealthy politician Ben Fitzmaurice<\/p>\n
Day, whose novel of the same name was published in 2017, acts as an executive producer on the series.<\/p>\n
She said “I am so thrilled to see this wonderful adaptation of my novel, The Party, come to our screens.<\/p>\n
“It’s unbelievably exciting to witness my characters and the imagined world they inhabit evolving into this compelling, new creative iteration.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WorldProductions\/PA Pontypool-born actor Luke Evans will play a leading role in the upcoming ITV drama A new TV…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-269535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}