Steve Coogan and Sarah Solemani are writing and co-starring in a comedy-drama about sexual politics in the wake of the #MeToo movement for Britain’s Channel 4.
Produced by Coogan’s Baby Cow Productions, Chivalry stars Coogan and Solemani as filmmakers put together by a cynical studio executive to salvage a failing movie.
Coogan plays successful producer Cameron, who is known for dating a string of young women. Solemani stars as woke writer and director Bobby, a mother of one who has tasted success with a low-budget feminist film.
The odd couple are brought closer by a creeping attraction and a feeling that they are just pawns in the studio’s agenda for a Saudi Arabian buyout.
Solemani, who starred in BBC comedy Him & Her and Bridget Jones’s Baby, said the show came about after she and Coogan had a series of “fiery debates” about sexual politics.
“Chivalry is more of a painfully honest,...
Produced by Coogan’s Baby Cow Productions, Chivalry stars Coogan and Solemani as filmmakers put together by a cynical studio executive to salvage a failing movie.
Coogan plays successful producer Cameron, who is known for dating a string of young women. Solemani stars as woke writer and director Bobby, a mother of one who has tasted success with a low-budget feminist film.
The odd couple are brought closer by a creeping attraction and a feeling that they are just pawns in the studio’s agenda for a Saudi Arabian buyout.
Solemani, who starred in BBC comedy Him & Her and Bridget Jones’s Baby, said the show came about after she and Coogan had a series of “fiery debates” about sexual politics.
“Chivalry is more of a painfully honest,...
- 1/13/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
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