Matt Smith goes shirtless for a laundrette photoshoot alongside Rafael Mathé within the first pic from The Dying of Bunny Munro TV sequence.
Clearly, it’s laundry day for Matt Smith on the set of Nick Cave‘s The Death of Bunny Munro. Written by BAFTA winner Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy), with direction by Isabella Eklöf (Industry, Holiday), the Doctor Who and House of the Dragon star goes shirtless in a first-look pic for the upcoming series adaptation of the Cave’s story. Child Reindeer studio Clerkenwell Movies is partnering with Sky Studios for the undertaking, with Nick Cave producing the sequence primarily based on his second novel.
What’s The Dying of Bunny Munro about? Right here’s an outline of Cave’s novel courtesy of Amazon:
“Set adrift by his spouse’s suicide and struggling to maintain some form of grasp on actuality, Bunny Munro drives off in his yellow Fiat Punto, Bunny Jr. in tow. To his son ready patiently within the automotive whereas he peddles magnificence wares and quickies to lonely housewives within the south of England, Bunny is a hero, bigger than life. However Bunny himself appears to have solely a dim consciousness of his son’s existence, viewing his wants as a distraction from his relentless pursuit of intercourse, alcohol and medicines.
When his weird street journey shades right into a ultimate reckoning, and when England’s small cities appear to change into stopping factors in an odd, legendary panorama, Bunny realizes that the revenants of his world — decrepit fathers, vengeful ghosts, jealous husbands and horned psycho-killers — lurk within the shadows, ready to actual their toll.
At turns darkish and humane — and with all of the thriller and enigma followers will acknowledge as Cave’s singular imaginative and prescient — The Dying of Bunny Munro questions the character of sin and redemption, and lays naked the imprints that fathers depart on their sons.”
Within the first picture from The Dying of Bunny Monru, Matt Smith leans towards the digicam in entrance of a Fenton’s Washeteria washer, sans shirt, with an unlit cigarette dangling from a smirking grin. Rafael Mathé, who performs Bunny Junior, sits alongside him with a cheeky smile.
The 2 characters have a lot to look ahead to as they assist each other throughout their adjustment to loss. Bunny Junior’s father is ill-equipped to take care of a younger son, however he’ll have to get his act collectively if each wish to survive the journey and one another. The difference of Cave’s cult story additionally stars Sarah Greene, Lindsay Duncan, Elizabeth Berrington, David Threlfall, Alice Feetham, Robert Glenister, and extra.
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