You can find that strand in Englishmen all the way back to the War of 1812.” The time period the show takes place in was set further back than initially planned He translated the Karma Sutra, and was a spy – a very conflicted bloke, and a kind of perverse Renaissance man. “We looked at Richard Francis Burton, the explorer. Though the main characters are fictional, they are inspired by real people. But take that person whole from reality and put them in the drama and see how it affects things, so that you walk into a doctors room and there’s lots of sheets hanging dyed different colours and he’s a spy.the reality is unsettling.” Now, as a fiction writer you wouldn’t make that up. “There was a real person who was an American spy, a doctor and someone who researched the dyeing of cloth. In an interview with Radio 4, Steven Knight explains about a character in a later episode: Nootka island is a real place and was actually an area of contention during the early days of the USA.Ĭharacters like the doctor are also real. The series draws on real historical events and characters Dumbarton and Essex-born spoken word artist Scroobius Pip (of Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip) who will play French Bill in his second TV role. The series also features Michael Kelly (Doug from House of Cards) as Dr. Roger Ashton-Griffiths who played Mace Tyrell (father to Margaery and Loras) in Game of Thrones, is another member of the East India Company on a mission to get Delaney to sell Nootka. Oona Chaplin (yeah, Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter), Rob Stark’s wife who met her gruesome end at The Red Wedding, plays Delaney’s sister who had her own plans for the island before he turned up out of nowhere. As part of the hugely corrupt East India Company, he is tasked with negotiating the purchase of Nootka island from the Delaney family. Jonathan Pryce, who plays the High Sparrow in Westoros, plays an equally resentful to resistance character in the form of Sir Stuart Strange. There’s a bunch of Game of Thronesactors in it Jonathan Pryce as Sir Stuart Strange The series also has two Scandi-noir directors – Kristoffer Nyholm (The Killing) and Anders Engström – which is where that Gothic darkness will be coming from. Tom Hardy isn’t the only Oscar-nominee involvedĭirector and producer Sir Ridley Scott is the executive producer, who’s previous work includes Gladiator, Alien and The Martianamongst many others - he’s got a critically acclaimed CV longer than your leg. In the meantime they managed to fit Peaky Blindersin, too. Knight kept his word and production for Taboo started two years ago. This will be the third time Hardy and Knight have teamed up and the seeds for this collaboration were sewn back when Hardy’s was in Locke. According to Knight, he was looking for someone to play the role and Hardy made a deal with him – he’d be in Locke if Knight did Taboo. Tom Hardy made a deal with Steven Knight to write the script Hardy and Knight at the Locke premiere Tom and Chips (who’s day job is as an advertising director and who has also written plays and TV comedy) began to develop the idea together into a short outline. ![]() What if you could amalgamate Hannibal Lecter with Sherlock Holmes, Heathcliff, Marlowe from Heart of Darkness and Bill Sikes what would that look like? If you cobbled together all the classics, and then really pushed it – a sort of Clapham Junction of multiple characters.” “I wondered why Bill Sikes wasn’t the hero. Junior Hardy got the idea for James Delaney’s character after he played Bill Sikes in a 2007 BBC production of Oliver Twist. Here’s everything else you need to know: Tom Hardy and his dad, Chips, came up with the idea ![]() Which explains the name Taboo.Įarly reviews have described the pilot episode as a Gothic slow-burner and essentially an hour of mostly Tom Hardy, which is no bad thing. According to Collider there's grave robbing, arsenic poisoning, spycraft, incest, cannibalism, and ghosts. When the East India shipping company can’t convince him to give it up, Delaney is faced with multiple dangers, one of which is his own mind. Not just a few bob, his pops leaves him an island off the coast of Vancouver, which proves to be ideal for trading, as a port in the war against America and the gateway to China. The series sees Hardy’s character, adventurer James Delaney, return from Africa to London (despite being presumed dead) to avenge his father’s death and claim his will. While we all twiddle our thumbs wondering what to do when dry January dictates we can’t drink, this dark and grimey series is here to rescue us and keep us wholly entertained for an hour of primetime. Tom Hardy’s new BBC imperial drama is hitting screens on Saturday night and it couldn’t come at a better time.
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