The cast list for Michael Sheen's new BBC Welsh-filmed drama, The Way, has been announced. The three-part series tells the story of an ordinary family caught up in an extraordinary chain of events that ripple out from their home town.
The Way, which has just begun filming in Port Talbot, has been described as a "bold new drama" written by James Graham, directed by Michael Sheen, and co-created by Sheen, Graham, and Adam Curtis. The emotional and darkly humorous story will explore what it means to be faced with impossible choices.
A synopsis reads: "Ambitious, powerful and surprising, The Way taps into the social and political chaos of today’s world by imagining a civil uprising which begins in a small industrial town. Fleeing unrest, The Driscolls are forced to escape the country they’ve always called home and the certainties of their old lives. Will they be overwhelmed by their memories of the past, or will they lay their ghosts to rest and take the risk of an unknown future?"
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The cast list has a star-studded line-up of Welsh talent with actors from Steeltown Murders, Gavin & Stacey, Keeping Faith, and The Pembrokeshire Murders all taking on starring roles. Steffan Rhodri, Mali Harries, Sophie Melville and Callum Scott Howells lead the cast, while Luke Evans also stars.
Director, co-creator, and executive producer Michael Sheen said of the cast: "I feel very lucky to get to work every day with these phenomenal actors. We’ve always had so much acting talent here in Wales and I’m very grateful to have the opportunity to tell this extraordinary story with the very best at work today."
Deputy Director, Creative Wales, Gerwyn Evans, added: "It's a very exciting year for the Welsh screen industry, with an exciting slate of drama productions coming to our screens in 2023. Today’s exciting announcement of The Way’s stellar cast is an excellent demonstration of the success of Creative Wales’s relationship with BBC. and the ways in which Welsh Government support helps to create opportunities to create quality content using Welsh talent, to tell our uniquely Welsh stories."
BBC The Way cast list
Steffan Rhodri (Steeltown Murders, Gavin and Stacey), Mali Harries (Keeping Faith, Hinterland), Sophie Melville (The Pact, Iphigenia In Splott), Callum Scott Howells (It's A Sin, Cabaret) and Michael Sheen (Staged, Good Omens) lead the cast as the Driscoll family with, Maja Laskowska (Trigonometry, Baptise) as a young woman caught up in the family’s escape.
Luke Evans (Nine Perfect Strangers, The Pembrokeshire Murders) stars as Hogwood, a mercenary in pursuit of the Driscolls, with Tom Cullen (The Gold, Weekend), Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, The Diplomat), Mark Lewis Jones (Outlander, The Crown), Paul Rhys (Discovery of Witches, Chaplin), Erin Richards (The Crown, Gotham), Aneurin Barnard (The Catch, 1899), Catherine Ayers (The Light in the Hall, Keeping Faith), Jonathan Nefydd (Pobol y Cwm, Grav), Matthew Aubrey (Keeping Faith, World on Fire), and Andria Doherty (It’s a Sin) all playing key roles across the series.
Child actor Teilo James Le Masurier will make his screen debut as Rhys, the Driscoll’s four-year-old grandson. For more showbiz and television stories get our newsletter here.
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