The BBC and Firebird Pictures (Wilderness, The Jetty, Outrageous) have released a series of first look pictures for Wild Cherry, BAFTA-award winning Nicôle Lecky’s highly anticipated second drama coming to BBC iPlayer and BBC One, following the success of Mood.
The first look pictures feature series leads Eve Best (House of the Dragon, The King’s Speech), Carmen Ejogo (True Detective, The Penguin), Imogen Faires (Goldie’s Oldies, Marcella), newcomer Amelia May and Nicôle Lecky (Mood, Sweetpea), who also serves as an executive producer.
Meet Lorna (Carmen Ejogo), a self-made, successful, mixed black businesswoman from North West London who has worked hard to be where she is – and best friend Juliet (Eve Best), a woman born into the privileged gated community they both call home. Daughters Grace (Imogen Faires) and Allegra (Amelia May) are BFFs and live a life other teenagers can only dream of. A safe haven for the superrich and their little darlings, Richford Lake is a place where bad things never happen…
Until, that is, Grace and Allegra are implicated in a shocking scandal at their exclusive private school and Juliet and Lorna are forced to take sides, pushing their friendship to breaking point. As toxic secrets and lies ripple through the idyllic town, the facade starts to fracture, threatening to reveal the deep-seated elitism and ugliness lurking beneath.
Set in a private enclave in the Home Counties, the six-part series is a provocative and deliciously honest look at mother/daughter relationships amidst the whirlwind of social media, hidden apps and relentless peer pressure that asks: how far will we go to protect our children? And just how much do teenage girls know about the women raising them? If the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, then who is leading these girls astray?
“Like mother like daughter” rings loudly in a complex world, and danger is never far from the surface - even in a perfect town.
Wild Cherry's ensemble cast is comprised of Sophie Winkleman (Peep Show, Sanditon), Daniel Lapaine (Catastrophe), Hayat Kamille (Vikings: Valhalla), Isabelle Allen (Les Misérables), James Murray (The Crown), Jason York (Mood), Katarina Cas (The Wolf of Wall Street), Nathaniel Martello-White (The Winter King), Sonita Henry (Black Cake), Tara Webb (Phoenix Rise), Will Bagnall (A Thousand Blows) and Hugh Quarshie (Holby City).
Wild Cherry (6x60) is produced by Firebird Pictures, one of BBC Studios’ owned production labels, for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. It is written and created by Nicôle Lecky with Toby MacDonald (Extraordinary, Fifteen-Love) directing. The executive producers are Elizabeth Kilgarriff, Craig Holleworth for Firebird Pictures, Lisa Walters, Nicôle Lecky, Toby Macdonald - and Lucy Richer for the BBC. The producer is Ado Yoshizaki Cassuto. The series is currently filming in Surrey. BBC Studios are distributing the series internationally.
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