'The Little Drummer Girl' cast find it's 'upsetting' that the conflicts in Middle East remain unresolved
Michael Shannon of BBC 1's Chan-wook Park-created show 'The Little Drummer Girl' is upset that the situation in the Middle-East has not changed since John Le Carre wrote the novel on which the show is based 35 years ago. This is BBC 1's second adaptation of a Le Carre novel, the first one was Carre's 1993 novel 'The Night Manager' which was directed by Rob Bullock.
'The Little Drummer Girl' premiered c and follows the aspiring actress Charlie (played by Florence Pugh) who finds herself in the middle of a spy-game orchestrated by the Israel-despising spy Marty Kurtz (played by Michael Shannon) who is hell-bent on capturing an Israeli spy. The show is set against the late 1970s Arab-Israel conflict, just a few years after the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
Speaking to the media during the show's premiere at the 62nd BFI London Film Festival on October 14, in London, Shannon said that it is "upsetting" that the story which was published in the '70s continues to be so relevant even to this day.
