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Jeremy Irons & Bille August Say Their ‘Count Of Monte Cristo’ Adaptation Could Only Work On The Small Screen – Series Mania
Jeremy Irons & Bille August have talked 'The Count Of Monte Cristo' at Series Mania.
Jeremy Irons and double-Palme d’Or winner Bille August are gearing up for their highly-anticipated Count of Monte Cristo series but when offered the chance to work on the project, they had certain red lines. The era of peak TV has been very much in the spotlight at Series Mania and Irons said there has been no real dip in the quality of content, as cinema-going has fallen and audiences have turned to streaming over the past few years. Irons’ Faria spends one episode in prison with Claflin’s Dantès and the actor revealed he had not read the book prior to the approach but was touched by the “very dense characters and a movement forward in the story, a desire to turn the page into the next chapter.”
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