EXCLUSIVE: The life of one of Hollywood’s leading men, Cary Grant, is to be portrayed by Jason Isaacs in an ITV and BritBox International drama, Deadline can reveal. Philomena and Stan & …
is producing and the four-parter will be a flagship premiere on soon-to-launch streamer ITVX.
Grant is widely recognized as one of Hollywood’s leading men, gaining a reputation for his transatlantic accent, sense of comic timing and handsome, debonair demeanor over more than 70 films in a decades-long mid-twentieth century career.and worked with the biggest stars of the day including Sophia Loren, Grace Kelly and Doris Day.
The show will intercut scenes from 1961 when, at the height of his fame, Grant was desperately unhappy in his private life after two failed marriages. Grant then began wooing TV star Dyan Cannon, who was 30 years his junior and didn’t immediately fall for his charms. He married her in 1965 and retired from film acting one year later.
“There was only one Cary Grant and I’d never be foolish enough to try to step into his iconic shoes,” said Isaacs. “Archie Leach, on the other hand, couldn’t be further from the character he invented to save himself.”star Helena Bonham Carter to lead similar showbiz biopicIsaacs could most recently be seen in the latest season of Netflix’s He is currently filming from Alex Helfrecht alongside John Malkovich, in which he plays a lovelorn poet undertaking a hazardous journey.
“Cary Grant became one of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century, beloved by presidents and paupers,” he added. “The key to everything, lay in his childhood.”their blessing, describing Pope’s script as “intelligent, understanding” and “capturing him so brilliantly.”, the Bristol boy who was abandoned by his father and ran away to Hollywood, where remarkably he transformed and became Cary Grant.
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