Jason Isaacs has taken on a new look as he transformed Hollywood icon Cary Grant in a first look at new ITVX drama Archie.
The Lucius Malfoy actor, 60, will star in the four-part series launching on the streaming platform in November.
Looking as handsome as ever, he added thick-rimmed black spectacles for his role as the suave and debonair actor.
The striking images offer a first look of the actor exuding all the elegance and style associated with classic film star Grant.
The show tells the story of Hollywood’s leading man – born Archibald Leach – and is written by award-winning screenwriter Jeff Pope.
Handsome: Jason Isaacs has taken on a new look as he transformed Hollywood icon Cary Grant in a first look at new ITVX drama Archie
Hollywood icon: Cary Grant in 1940
The series is directed by BAFTA winning Paul Andrew Williams, who also serves as an Executive Producer, and produced by BAFTA winning Rebecca Hodgson.
Born in Bristol, England in 1904, to parents Elsie and Elias, Archie narrates the story of a young Archibald Alexander Leach’s troubled childhood and how extreme poverty, his father’s adultery and the loss of his older brother, John, tore the family apart and sent his loving mother into a downward spiral of grief and depression.
Jeff Pope’s scripts reveal how deceit, cruelty and one, overpowering lie shaped Archie’s life.
After staying in the US to try to make his way in showbusiness, a chance meeting with the comedian George Burns helped him find his first footing on the acting ladder, and Cary Grant was born.
But despite breaking all box office records, Grant was desperately unhappy in his private life.
With two failed marriages behind him, he began to woo an actress he’d seen on a TV show, Dyan Cannon.
Star of the show: The Lucius Malfoy actor, 60, will star in the four-part series launching on the streaming platform in November
Leading man: Looking as handsome as ever, he added thick-rimmed black spectacles for his role as the suave and debonair actor
Thirty-three years his junior, Dyan didn’t initially fall for his charms turning down his attempts to meet, because she didn’t feel they could ever be a match – but the series will explore their love story.
The series also stars Laura Aikman (Not Going Out, Gavin and Stacey) as Cary’s formidable ex-wife, actress and filmmaker Dyan Cannon, with Harriet Walter (Succession, Ted Lasso, Killing Eve) as Elsie Leach, Cary’s mother.
Captain Hook actor Jason is also set to star in The Salt Path alongside Gillian Anderson, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Raynor Winn.
The famous actors were spotted filming for the incredible true story in July.
New TV: The striking images offer a first look of the actor exuding all the elegance and style associated with classic film star Grant
Regular look: Jason Isaacs at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington DC in April
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