The upcoming Apple series "The Essex Serpent" will have to do without Keira Knightley as an actress. The reason: the corona pandemic.
Surprise at the planned Apple series "The Essex Serpent": Actress Keira Knightley (35, "The Imitation Game") has backed out and will not take on the leading role as planned. As reported by "Deadline" among other things, your spokesman justified the step with the corona pandemic. Accordingly, the currently rolling second wave in Great Britain is responsible for this. The British could not find an acceptable solution for the care of their children for the ten-week filming time and therefore terminated the contracts.
The shooting of the series adaptation of the novel "The Snake from Essex" by Sarah Perry should have started in a few weeks. Now the pre-production of the Apple TV + series has been put on hold for the time being in order to find a new leading actress. Knightley was involved in the project not only as an actress, but also as a co-producer. It is not yet known whether this function will also be suspended.