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21.01.2022 - 20:43 / variety.com
Annika Pham Icelandic international star Aníta Breim (“The Tudors,” “The Minister,” “Journey to the Center of the Earth”) is making her debut as a creator and writer with the drama series “As Long as We Live” turning on love, lust and longing.Now in development, the six-part series, which is produced by Glassriver for Iceland’s Channel 2, has just been picked up for global distribution by Eccho Rights.Writer-creator Briem and producer Hörður Rúnarsson will be pitching the show in-person at the Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision confab, which runs Feb 2-3.Briem will be toplining the show as Beta, a former queen of pop, now a struggling mom in a stale marriage, longing for the thrills of her past life. When a young man enters her home and introduces her and her husband to flirting games, the couple’s relationship gets rekindled, as they tread a path of lust and excitement. But can their marriage survive? Briem told Variety that the story is inspired by her personal experience.
“The stories around us give us such an important guide. An inner compass,” she says. “Most of the love stories in our culture, take us all the way up to the altar. But then what? What happens 10 or 20 years in? When I found myself in this chapter of my life, I felt a painful absence of stories about this subject.
Some hints that I wasn’t broken, a misfit or a bad person for feeling the way I did. Sometimes that’s all we need. Just to know we’re not alone.”For her the show is ultimately “an ode to love, to marriage, in whatever form you choose to have it.
It’s an ode to curiosity, to the spark in us. An ode to the lust for life. “Rúnarsson calls “As Long as We Live” “a passionate Nordic love story with hooks and twists,” which is “unique in
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