Kate Winslet’s collaboration with HBO is a gift that keeps on giving and she just joined forces with this network for another limited series. The two-time Emmy winner landed the lead role in the authoritarian limited series The Palace.
According to Deadline, this series tells “the story of one year within the walls of the palace of an authoritarian regime as it begins to unravel.”
The creative team behind it is pretty impressive, as the series hails from Succession duo Will Tracy and Frank Rich and the Oscar-nominated director Stephen Frears. Tracy is coming on board as showrunner, while Frears is set to direct and executive produce the series.
Francesca Orsi, executive vice president at HBO Programming, said that they’re honored to be working with this incredibly talented group of filmmakers on The Palace.
“The notion that Kate Winslet and Stephen Frears, two of our industry’s leading lights, who – remarkably – have never collaborated before now, are joining forces to bring Will Tracy’s wildly original, prescient, and dazzling scripts to life at HBO is a dream come true for us,” said Orsi in a statement.
The Palace marks Winslet’s fourth limited series on HBO. She previously landed two Emmys for Mildred Pierce and Mare of Easttown and was recently cast as the lead in the upcoming limited series Trust.
