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Gemma Arterton and the Black Narcissus cast on their BBC Christmas drama: ‘It’s The Shining with nuns’
The i 12/17/2020 Gerard Gilbert
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Call the Midwife costume department doesn’t have a monopoly on wimples this Christmas. BBC One’s Black Narcissus tells of an order of Anglo-Catholic nuns tasked with setting up a school and hospital in an abandoned palace in the Tibetan Himalayas. The dilapidated fictional citadel of Mopu used to house a harem, and the building’s lubricious past seems to be rubbing off on the sisters of St Faith.
The three-part drama stars Gemma Arterton as St Faith’s inexperienced leader, Sister Clodagh, Aisling Franciosi from Game of Thrones and The Fall as the disturbed Sister Ruth, and a supporting cast which includes Jim Broadbent and, in her final screen appearance, the late Diana Rigg as the Mother Superior who sends the sisters to Tibet.