Hugh Grant Joins Nicole Kidman In HBO’s “The Undoing”

Hugh Grant will continue his small screen career for the time being. After a career-first move to the small screen with BBC One and Amazon’s “A Very English Scandal,” the 58-year-old actor is now heading to HBO, where he will join Nicole Kidman in “The Undoing.”

The drama is a second collaboration at the premium cable outlet between Kidman’s Blossom Films and David E. Kelley’s eponymous production company and is based on the Jean Hanff Korelitz novel “You Should Have Known.” Grant will reportedly play the seemingly devoted husband of Kidman’s central character, Grace Sachs.

“Overnight a chasm opens in Grace’s life,” reads the description, “a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.”

Kelley will serve as the writer and show runner while Per Saari, Bruna Papandrea and director Susanne Bier will serve as executive producers.

“The Undoing” will be a limited series, much like HBO’s “Big Little Lies.”

By: Maytinee Kramer