Happy Valley star Siobhan Finneran has landed a role in a new British movie.
The actor will appear in Chatlines, a new LGBTQ+-themed sci-fi film from writer and co-director Lloyd Eyre-Morgan (Departures), who also stars in the lead role of Jordan (via Deadline).
Set in 2027, the movie follows the character – a 30-something with terminal cancer – who spends his last few days alive drifting between morphine-induced dreams and the digital world.
While using a Chatroulette-type app, Jordan meets a sarcastic and vibrant guy called Danny (played by My Mad Fat Diary's Nico Mirallegro), who is also terminally ill.
The two start to connect, forming a deep bond as they speak about their regrets in life, their dreams and the loneliness of facing death.
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Chatlines will also star Adolescence's Faye Mckeever, This City is Ours' Laura Aikman and What it Feels Like for a Girl's Hannah Jones.
Departures' Neil Ely co-directs the movie alongside Eyre-Morgan, with filming due to begin this week.
Finneran most-recently starred in ITV crime drama Protection, which Digital Spy suggested doesn't deserve comparisons to her previous series Happy Valley.
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"It is Finneran that carries the show – and that might be enough for some, not so much for others," we added in our review.
If you fancy catching more of Finneran, there are plenty of her projects on streaming, including 2017 series The Loch, comedy show Benidorm, 2013 movie The Selfish Giant and 2019 film Pond Life.
She also has a new Netflix series on the way called Out of the Dust, which will look "behind the closed doors of a fictional conservative religious sect".
Chatlines is yet to confirm a release date.
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