True Blood star Anna Paquin returns to television in Flack, where she’ll play “a very skilful PR rep, who has an incredibly complicated personal life that she doesn’t share with anyone”.
Flack stars Anna Paquin as the sharp and witty publicity maven, Robyn, who’s an expert at her craft but a complete self-saboteur when it comes to her personal life. Robyn’s work as a crisis PR strategist is fast-paced and unpredictable, as she counsels high-profile personalities in entertainment, fashion and sports.
In an interview with Deadline, Anna Paquin spoke about her role as Robyn in the new series, “I see this era of television as one in which women’s roles are interesting, flawed and complicated, where they’re not necessarily perfect. People are not going to mind that Robyn’s not very sympathetic, they’re going to be enthralled with the story, seeing a real human. There was a real fear [before], that people would switch off if girls weren’t nice, but those girls are boring to watch and don’t reflect who most of us are in general. It’s nice that entertainment is catching up with reality.”
Starring Anna Paquin (True Blood), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), Genevieve Angelson (Good Girls Revolt), Lydia Wilson (Black Mirror), Rebecca Benson (Game of Thrones), Arinzé Kene (Crazyhead), Marc Warren (The Good Wife), and Rufus Jones (Episodes).
The series is created and executive produced by Oliver Lansley, with Peter Cattaneo is set to direct. Other executive producers involved in the project include: Paquin, Cerise Hallam Larkin, Stephen Moyer, Mark Larkin, Jimmy Mulville, and Helen Williams.
The six-episode season of Flack premieres February 21st at 10/9c on Pop.
