Yahoo News Derry Girls star Saoirse-Monica Jackson features in Netflix's The Decameron trailer
Derry Girls star Saoirse-Monica Jackson looks unrecognisable in a new trailer for "wine-soaked sex-romp" Netflix series, The Decameron.
Netflix has set July 25 as the date for the premiere of the eight-part series, and the streaming giant has released a new trailer to get fans interested, reports The Irish Mirror. Tony Hale, Zosia Mamet and Saoirse-Monica Jackson star in the dark comedy, which is set in the year 1348 when the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence, and a handful of nobles retreat with their servants to a grand villa to wait out the plague with a lavish holiday.
But as social rules wear thin, a scramble for survival ensues, brought to life by a cast of characters both cunning and outrageous.
READ MORE: Nicola Coughlan rules out possibility of a Derry Girls return
The cast also includes Amar Chadha-Patel, Leila Farzad, Lou Gala, Karan Gill, Douggie McMeekin, Jessica Plummer and Tanya Reynolds.
It comes as Nicola Coughlan has ruled out the possibility of a return to Derry Girls. Coughlan, who plays Penelope Featherington in the hit Netflix series Bridgerton, was speaking to reporters at a red carpet event in Dublin for the period drama's return for the second half of series three.
She said Derry Girls was a "perfect package" of "three and done" seasons of the hit sitcom, but insisted she wouldn't return for fear of "tainting" the smash hit comedy series.
Coughlan told the BBC in Dublin that Derry Girls had been "amazing and I think it was a real three and done and it was wrapped up in a perfect package".
"I wouldn't want to go back because I wouldn't want to taint it," she added.
But the Bridgerton star left the door open to working with her Derry Girls co-stars at some point in the future as she praised Siobhán McSweeney, who stars as Sister Michael.
"It's incredible to see Siobhán go on to win the Bafta," Coughlan said. "But I would like to work with them again in another iteration."
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