Just over a year ago, ITV in the United Kingdom announced that actor Jason Isaacs would play none other than screen legend Cary Grant in a biographical series. If people had difficulty imagining Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, it was even more challenging to think of the actor who – although versatile – would not be the first person to be considered similar for the role. And yet, the first official images leave us at peace. Jason is, literally, Cary.

Archie premieres on British TV in November, we still don’t know which global platform will show it, but I’m curious. If you’re surprised why the title isn’t “Cary”, for those who forgot, it’s because it’s a reference to the real name of the actor who used Cary Grant on screen but was Archibald Alexander Leach off the screen. Written by Jeff Pope and directed by Paul Andrew Williams, we will look back at the star’s troubled childhood in England, where he lived in extreme poverty in a family marked by adultery, loss, sadness, and depression, but also how he came out with a troupe of circus artists and He ended up in New York, where he reinvented himself as the movie star we still love today.

In life, Cary Grant did not like to talk about his personal life, especially about the period of his youth, but his only daughter, Jennifer Grant, approved of Archie, as she signed the series (alongside the actor’s ex-wife and her mother, Dyan Cannon) as executive producer. Dyan, in fact, will be played by Laura Aikman.

The actress who plays difficult mothers on call, Harriet Walter will play Elsie Leach, Cary’s mother, with Kara Tointon playing the younger Elsie. From Isaac’s images, we can be sure that the period reconstruction will be perfect and give us hope of getting to know a beloved icon like Cary Grant a little better. I, at least, really want to see it!

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