‘Máxima’: ‘The Lives Of Others’ Star Sebastian Koch & Elsie De Brauw Join RTL Royal Drama; Beta Boards As Co-Producer
27.07.2023 - 08:05
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EXCLUSIVE: The Lives of Others star Sebastian Koch and The Death of My Mother‘s Elsie de Brauw have joined Máxima, RTL’s upcoming drama about the Argentine-born Queen of the Netherlands. Germany’s Beta Film has also joined the Millstreet Films production.
Principal photography on the six-part drama for RTL’s streamer Videoland began last month in New York and Madrid in Spain, which subbed in for Buenos Aires, and is set to move to the Netherlands and Belgium with its cast rounded out.
German star Koch (The Lives of Others, Your Honour) joins the cast in the role of Claus van Amsberg, the father of Crown Prince King Willem-Alexander, and Elsie de Brauw will play Queen Beatrix. Queen Máxima is portrayed by Argentinian star Delfina Chaves (The Secret of the Greco Family) and Prince Willem-Alexander, by Martijn Lakemeier (The East), as we reported in March.
Beta will co-produce alongside Rachel van Bommel’s Dutch indie Millstreet and FBO, and has acquired International sales rights. Saskia Diesing directs together with Joosje Duk and Iván López Núñez. Marnie Blok and Ilse Ott led the writer’s room and van Bommel produces for Millstreet.
Máxima is based on the book ‘Máxima Zorreguieta: Motherland’ by Marcia Luyten, which was published by De Bezige Bij in the Netherlands, and tells the story of how Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti became Dutch royalty and what her life has since been like. An Argentinian edition was published by Planeta in Buenos Aires in December 2022.
The first season depicts Maxima’s first encounter with then-Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and her route to becoming a public figure, highlighting her determination and ambition, as well as her struggle to balance the loyalty to her family and her own identity. The