A video of a young Liz Truss calling for the monarchy to be abolished has resurfaced on the day she is due to be appointed Prime Minister by the Queen.
18.08.2022 - 10:29 / variety.com
Naman Ramachandran At a time when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues and a politically fragile U.K. is dealing with daily crises, Peter Kosminsky’s “The Undeclared War” is timely and prescient. Set in a post-pandemic 2024 in the run up to a British general election, the series follows a team of analysts at GCHQ (the U.K.’s version of the NSA) secretly working to ward off a series of cyber attacks by Russia.
Thrust in the middle of it is 21-year-old intern Saara Parvin who finds herself in the middle of an online high stakes battle. The lead role of Parvin, in a cast that also includes stalwarts Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg and Adrian Lester, is played by rising star Hannah Khalique-Brown. It is her first major role after appearing in a few episodes of the BBC’s “Doctors.” “The prescience of almost everything in the show is just bit terrifying, really.
None of us could have predicted what was going to happen with Ukraine, and so many other things like the Boris Johnson vote, the power struggle that’s happening right now before our eyes too,” Khalique-Brown told Variety. Johnson was ousted as British Prime Minister in July and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and current Foreign Secretary Liz Truss are engaged in a bitter fight to succeed him. “Anything that happens either has happened or could happen in this series.
It’s shocking, so much of it has become really relevant and really, eerily similar to real life,” says Khalique-Brown. While preparing for a role Khalique-Brown likes to construct and live a persona. “The way I like to work is to build a human life that’s not me, it’s other than me, and color it in, in forensic detail, build their memories and live their memories,” the actor says.
A video of a young Liz Truss calling for the monarchy to be abolished has resurfaced on the day she is due to be appointed Prime Minister by the Queen.
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