Terence Stamp, Jade Anouka and Simone Kirby are joining the cast of the second season of BBC and HBO’s adaptation of Philip Pullman’s award-winning trilogy “His Dark Materials” which will begin shooting later this year.
Stamp is joining the cast as Giacomo Paradisi, the bearer of the Subtle Knife who lives in the Torre de Angeli. Anouka will play witch queen Ruta Skadi. Kirby is Dr Mary Malone, the head of a Dark Matter Research Team at an Oxford University in our world.
The trio join the likes of Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, Amir Wilson and Lin-Manuel Miranda in the Jack Thorne-penned franchise. In the second season, Lyra finds herself in the mysterious abandoned city of Cittagazze, where she meets Will.
Source: Deadline
