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The star of Amazon Prime's 'Underground Railroad' - directed by Oscar-winner Barry Jenkins - is the first local actress in history to headline a US series
I Hate Suzie
Watching Billie Piper in this intense and very adult black comedy, it’s amazing to recall that when she began her career as what used to be called a ‘teenybopper’ pop star, it was assumed she’d be a here-today-gone-tomorrow phenomenon.
In fact, she has repeatedly shown her talents as a brilliant actress, and she does so again here. Piper plays Suzie, a former child star whose career is upended when sexually explicit photos of her with a man who is definitely not her husband pop up online.
Watching Billie Piper (above) in this intense and very adult black comedy, it’s amazing to recall that when she began her career it was assumed she’d be here-today-gone-tomorrow
The novel The Underground Railroad had such an impact that Cora, its main character, ended up with a crater named after her on one of Pluto’s moons. Which is suitably far from Georgia, where she flees
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, who captured Anya Taylor-Joy s attention on (and off) the chessboard in hit Netflix drama The Queen s Gambit, has played the best move of all by being picked to portray Brian Epstein, the Beatles legendary manager, in a new film that will shoot later this year.
Epstein was dubbed the fifth Beatle by Paul McCartney; and when John Lennon heard of his death, from an accidental overdose in 1967, he declared: He was one of us.
The 33-year-old rising star was chosen for the part in Midas Man (An Unauthorised Autobiography of Brian Epstein) by director Jonas Akerlund.
A Grammy-award winning music video filmmaker, Akerlund is celebrated for his collaborations with Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Madonna; as well as two pictures: Polar, a highly visualised graphic novel adaptation starring Mads Mikkelsen; and Lords Of Chaos, about Norwegian underground satanic band Black Metal. His style always pushes the envelope, Fortune-Lloyd said of the director s wo