Prime Video‘s comedy Escorted, starring and created by Brett Goldstein, is including Lesley Manville to its forged.
The newly topped Tony Award winner will play the mom of Goldstein’s character within the sequence. Her casting marks a return to Prime Video for Manville, who additionally stars within the Amazon-owned streamer’s Citadel.
Escorted, which Prime Video ordered to series late final 12 months, stars Goldstein (Ted Lasso, Shrinking) as Denny, a divorced dad in Manhattan who by chance turns into a male escort. Prime Video describes the present as a “romantic comedy about sexual dynamics, keeping secrets, and whether real intimacy can ever be bought.”
Manville (The Crown, Phantom Thread) will play Terri, Denny’s mom and a “charisma bomb” cabaret singer. Her character is a drive of nature with a voice to match.
Manville won a Tony Award on Sunday for greatest lead actress in a play for Oedipus. She was nominated for an Oscar in 2018 for her position in Phantom Thread; her current credit additionally embody FX’s Grotesquerie, the Amy Winehouse biopic Again to Black, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris and the upcoming Marble Corridor Murders, which is about to premiere on PBS’ Masterpiece in September. Manville is repped by Artists Rights Group, Avalon Tv and Public Eye Communications.
Warner Bros. Tv, the place Goldstein has an general deal, is producing Escorted. Goldstein is writing the sequence and serves as co-showrunner with Brian Gallivan (Shrinking, Pleased Endings).
