Yahoo News Netflix unveils first look at The Crown star Gillian Anderson's Western show
Netflix has shared a first look at Gillian Anderson as filming begins for her new series.
The Crown star will appear in Western show The Abandons, alongside the likes of Lena Headey, Patton Oswalt and Lucas Till.
Filming for the show has begun in Calgary, with the streaming giant sharing a first-look image of the star-studded cast of the drama, which focuses on two rival mothers locked in a bloody feud.
Anderson will star as Constance Van Ness, who is described as being "a strong-willed matriarch who will stop at nothing to protect and grow the mining fortune she inherited from her husband and then doubled."
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Her goal is to "consolidate the Van Ness clan’s power in the ruthless, unforgiving frontier", clashing directly with Headey's Fiona Nolan, a fellow matriarch who adopts four orphans and will stop at nothing to protect them.
The cast features Sons of Anarchy stars Ryan Hurst and Michael Ornstein alongside The Flight Attendant's Michiel Huisman and Mayans MC actor Clayton Cardenas.
Maid actor Nick Robinson, Booksmart's Diana Silvers, The Last Of Us star Lamar Johnson, The Nightingale's Aisling Franciosi and Hail Mary's Natalia del Riego round out the cast.
The series has been created by Sons of Anarchy and Mayans MC's Kurt Sutter, who said he was inspired by the "metamorphosis of good into evil".
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He added to Tudum: "What must transpire to drive the morally sound to become the dangerously corrupt. The Abandons explores those complex compromises through the most powerful human instinct – the love and protection of mothers."
A synopsis from Netflix about The Abandons reads: "The Abandons tells the story of a group of diverse renegade families living on the fringes of society in 1850s Oregon. These lost souls band together to fight corrupt forces and do anything they can to save their land.
"The Western series will explore the jagged line between survival and law, the consequences of violence, and the corrosive power of secrets as this makeshift family battles to keep what’s theirs."
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