More revealed about the cast for the remake of Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay’s classic mystery novel Picnic at Hanging Rock has long been a favourite both in Australia and abroad, and it’s set to get the TV treatment with Foxtel announcing the cast for their upcoming reboot.
Producers have already scored two big-name stars, with Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer signing on to play English headmistress Mrs Hester Appleyard and Orange is the New Black’s Yael Stone set to play Miss Dora Lumley, mistress of Deportment and Bible Studies.
French actress Lola Bessis will play Mademoiselle Dianne de Poitiers, mistress of French Conversation, Music and Dance, while the roles of Miss Greta McCraw (mistress of Geography and Mathematics) and Mrs Valange (mistress of Art and Literature) will be played by Anna McGahan and Sibylla Budd, respectively.
The students will be played by Lily Sullivan as Miranda Reid, Madeline Madden as Marion Quade, Home and Away’s Samara Weaving as Irma Leopold, Ruby Rees as Edith Horton and Inez Curro as Sara Waybourne.
The Aussie series, controversially directed in part by a Canadian, Larysa Kondracki, will feature six 60-minute episodes and is set to begin shooting this month.
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