Two titans of movie are getting ready to grace our tv screens with a juicy psychological thriller this fall. Two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett, and five-time winner Alfonso Cuarón have teamed up for Disclaimer, a seven-episode restricted sequence based mostly on the best-selling 2015 novel of the identical title by Renée Knight.
Per an official description, Disclaimer is about acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett), who constructed her fame revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown writer, she is horrified to comprehend she is now the primary character in a narrative that exposes her darkest secrets and techniques.
Disclaimer has hints of Blanchett’s roles in each 2022’s Tár and 2006’s Notes on a Scandal Position—tales of betrayal, penalties, secrets and techniques, and the endings of careers. Most not too long ago, she performed a nun working an orphanage within the fantasy drama The New Boy, and can star alongside Alicia Vikander within the buzzy dramedy Rumours later this 12 months.
Disclaimer marks Cuarón’s first return to tv since 2013’s Consider, a science fiction sequence he created for NBC that featured Kyle MacLachlan. The Mexican filmmaker might be finest recognized for 2018’s critically acclaimed Roma, which starred Yalitzia Aparicio as a housekeeper working for a middle-class household in Nineteen Seventies Mexico Metropolis, based mostly loosely on the lifetime of Cuarón’s household’s maid. The movie acquired three Oscars, together with Finest Director for Cuarón. He additionally gained Finest Modifying for 2013’s Gravity, a success house drama that starred Sandra Bullock and George Clooney (have been we ever so younger?)
Disclaimer is in good firm amongst lauded movie stars having room to play within the tv house. Nicole Kidman instantly involves thoughts, taking over a number of straight-to-streaming roles lately on exhibits like 9 Good Strangers, Expats, The Undoing, and naturally, Large Little Lies. Natalie Portman will quickly make her Apple TV+ debut with crime thriller Woman within the Lake later this 12 months.
Disclaimer additionally stars Sacha Baron Cohen (as Blanchett’s husband) and Kodi Smit-McPhee (as her son). Kevin Kline has a number one function, and Lesley Manville, Leila George, Louis Partridge, and mannequin HoYeon Jung additionally not too long ago joined the forged. Disclaimer will debut on Apple TV+ with the primary two episodes on October 11, adopted by a brand new episode each Friday till November 15.
