In the month of June the series “The Full Monty” arrives for Star+. From the creators of the iconic BAFTA Award-winning film, the eight-episode miniseries will arrive exclusively on the streaming service in Latin America.
Set 25 years after the original film, the series follows the same group of friends from the post-industrial city of Sheffield as they grapple with the various problems in the health, education and employment sectors.
The dramedy reveals what happened to the group of friends after they quit their jobs as strippers, exploring their brightest, silliest, and most desperate moments. It also highlights how the irreverently funny world of these working-class heroes, still based in Sheffield, has changed over the decades. The Monty group comes together again to pay tribute to the friendships of a lifetime.
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The series was written by acclaimed original film writer Simon Beaufoy, along with Alice Nutter and executive producer Uberto Pasolini.
Simon Beaufoycreator, writer and executive producer commented: “It has been one of the greatest joys of my writing career to bring together this eccentric and irrepressible family of Sheffield men and women and see how twenty-five years, seven prime ministers and one hundred unfulfilled political promises They have affected their lives.”
Added writer-creator-executive producer Alice Nutter: “Going into Monty’s world, where community, friends and family step in when the state has failed so abysmal, has been a great personal reminder of how which is good in the world we live in. It has been a pleasure and a privilege writing the series.”
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The new original series will star the original cast, which includes Robert Carlyle as Gaz, Mark Addy as Dave, Lesley Sharp as Jean, Hugo Speer as Guy, Paul Barber as Horse, Steve Huison as Lomper, Wim Snape as Nathan and Tom Wilkinson as Gerald.
New cast members include Paul Clayton as Dennis, Lomper’s husband, Miles Jupp as a recently divorced housing officer who turns to the Monty men for advice on navigating adult life, Sophie Stanton as Hetty, a colleague and friend of Jean, and Phillip Rhys Chaudhary as Dilip, the assistant principal of the school. Additionally, Dominic Sharkey and Natalie Davies join as Destiny’s sidekicks Cal and Tabani, along with Arnold Oceng as a talented graffiti artist, Aiden Cook as wise twelve-year-old “Twiglet” and Tupele Dorgu as Yaz, Destiny’s mother. .
Early images for the series also feature Talitha Wing as Gaz’s teenage daughter, Destiny Schofield.
