If you love thrillers, it's time to get excited as The Guest is heading to the BBC, and it has a fantastic Welsh cast including Keeping Faith's Eve Myles. Filmed in and around Cardiff, this fast-paced drama centres around the toxic and beguiling relationship between a successful business owner and her employee, who looks up to her boss in awe.
Nick Andrews, the Head of Commissioning for BBC Cymru Wales has dubbed the show as "a twisty-turny edge-of-your-seat thriller which you will be watching from behind your sofa".
What's The Guest about?
"Ria has never had the time or opportunity to think about what she might actually want from the world. So, when she starts cleaning for Fran, she’s intoxicated by this confident and self-assured woman who encourages her to take control of her life and, when Ria flourishes, an intense friendship is forged.", teases the BBC.
"However, when Fran’s advice leads to a shocking event, the lives of these two very different women become intertwined by shared secrets and dangerous plots. What follows is a compelling and manipulative game of cat-and-mouse. But just who is playing who?"
When will The Guest be released?
The Guest has been commissioned for BBC iPlayer and BBC One in a co-production with BBC Cymru Wales. Filming is currently taking place, so there's no release date yet, but we will keep this page updated with any news.
Writer Matthew Barry says "As well as being an exciting thriller, at its core this is an examination of class, social mobility and the growing disparity between those at the top and bottom of our society.”
The Guest cast
Eve Myles (best known for Keeping Faith, Hijack and Broadchurch and recently seen in The Crow Girl on Paramount Plus) and Gabrielle Creevy (In My Skin, Black Doves, The Pact) will be leading this fantastic cast of Welsh actors which includes:
Cardiff-born actor Siôn Daniel Young (Witness Number 3, Lost Boys & Fairies, Slow Horses), Emun Elliott (Sexy Beast, The Gold, Guilt), Catherine Ayers (Keeping Faith, Missing You, The Way), Julian Lewis Jones (Stella, Invictus), Bethan Mary-James (Death Valley, Cuffs, Friday Night Dinner), Joseph Ollman (Queenie, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Spent) and British actor Clive Russell (Ripper Street, Game of Thrones, The Witcher).
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