{"id":218369,"date":"2025-10-22T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218369\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:35:07","slug":"laura-linney-rhys-ifans-lead-bbc-drama-but-when-we-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218369\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Linney &#038; Rhys Ifans Lead BBC Drama &#8216;But When We Dance&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/laura-linney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_laura-linney\" data-tag=\"laura-linney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Linney<\/a> (Ozark) and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/rhys-ifans\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rhys-ifans\" data-tag=\"rhys-ifans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rhys Ifans<\/a> (House of the Dragon) have been cast in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/but-when-we-dance\/\" id=\"auto-tag_but-when-we-dance\" data-tag=\"but-when-we-dance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">But When We Dance<\/a>, a special <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bbc\" data-tag=\"bbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> drama about two people brought together by Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe 90-minute drama, penned by Esio Trot writer Paul Mayhew-Archer, chronicles a touching story about two people with lots in common \u2014 a sense of humour, a love of dance, and Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMonica Dolan (Mr Bates v\u2019s The Post Office), Rory Kinnear (The Diplomat), and Mayhew-Archer have also been cast in But When We Dance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film is directed by Oscar-winner John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), and produced by Hilltop Screen, a John Gore Studios company, for BBC iPlayer and BBC One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHere\u2019s the logline: \u201cSet and filmed in North Norfolk, Rhys plays Tony Evans, the deputy head of a local primary school. Laura stars as Emma Dretzin, a pianist, composer and single mother of two daughters. Neither knows the other until a startling encounter changes the course of their lives: on the same morning, they are both confronted with a diagnosis of Parkinson\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProducers are Hilary Bevan Jones and John Gore. The executive producers are Madden, Mayhew-Archer, Rhys Ifans, Hilary Strong, and Francis Hopkinson for John Gore Studios; Ellie Wood, Helen Flint, and Lucy Richer for the BBC. Kaleidoscope Film Distribution will handle worldwide sales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMayhew-Archer said: \u201cIn 2011 when I was 58 years old, I was told I had Parkinson\u2019s. It\u2019s incurable and it makes many of the things I do \u2013 walking, talking, smiling \u2013 increasingly difficult. But though I have reasons to hate Parkinson\u2019s it has also brought me opportunities I wouldn\u2019t have missed for the world. The latest of these is the chance to work with the brilliant director John Madden and wonderful actors on bringing this story to life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Linney (Ozark) and Rhys Ifans (House of the Dragon) have been cast in But When We Dance,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[243,93476,6491,96,93477,93478,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-218369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bbc","tag-but-when-we-dance","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-laura-linney","tag-rhys-ifans","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}