The Underworld starlet takes the title function as “widow” Georgia Wells, whose cherished partner of 10 years, Will Mason, dies in an aircraft crash on a vacation to Africa.
Kate Beckinsale might have been making headlines just recently with her actual unforeseen (and very public) new love with Pete Davidson, but we can expect a whole lot even more primetime action this month as the actress returns to our displays in the new ITV drama, The Widow.
Rapid ahead three years, and after seeing a male resembling her supposedly dead spouse on a newspaper article reporting civil unrest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia drops everything and trips to the country’s capital, Kinshasha, to uncover whether Will might still live.
As she starts to search for solutions regarding what really took place in the crash, Georgia is required to confront the possibility that her missing hubby could actually have actually forged his very own fatality, and should face physical violence as well as corruption in her pursuit to discover the truth.
The action-packed dramatization includes an all-star lineup, including distinguished star Charles Dance, EMERGENCY ROOM celebrity Alex Kingston, Sherlock‘s Louise Brealey and also Black Mirror actor, Babs Olusanmokun.
“It takes care of a woman’s pain as well as her choosing her way out of that,” Kate Beckinsale disclosed in a meeting. “It additionally checks out deceptiveness in a great deal of kinds. Trying to uncover emotional and physical truths. Also a big character in The Widow is Africa itself.
“So there’s quite a whole lot regarding what is happening politically in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Together with the duty of the child militia. Among our personalities is a little girl who has been eliminated from her household by the militia.”