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Sister Boss Jane Featherstone & Abi Morgan On Working With The “Fearless” Benedict Cumberbatch In Netflix’s ‘Eric’ And Taking A Talent-First Approach To “Challenging” Times


Jane Featherstone & Abi Morgan have talked working with Benedict Cumberbatch In Netflix's 'Eric' & upcoming sister shows Kaos & Black Doves

EXCLUSIVE: Global TV and film studio Sister is gearing up for a string of projects to hit the small and big screens and today might well see the launch of its most daring. More Netflix series including Jeff Goldblum-starring Greek mythology retelling Kaos and Barton thriller Black Doves with Ben Whishaw and Keira Knightley are incoming imminently but Featherstone acknowledged it has been a “challenging” couple of years beset by Covid-19 and the commissioning contraction, although she labeled the latter a “slowdown rather than a collapse.” She said the end result, which also stars Gaby Hoffmann and McKinley Belcher III, is testament to the way in which Featherstone allows her to “let ideas breathe and plays table tennis” with them, which led to immediate enthusiasm for a project about a puppeteer who goes on a quest to find his son.

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