Published Nov 9, 2026, 11:00 AM ET · Updated 4 days ago · 2 sources
Emily Watson To Lead ‘John Daniel’, Dominic Cooke’s Drama About Unlikely Friendship Between English Woman And Baby Gorilla
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Emily Watson (Hamnet, Chernobyl) has been cast in the lead role in Dominic Cooke’s British drama John Daniel. She will play Alyce Cunningham, a fiercely independent English woman who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a baby gorilla in the aftermath of the First World War. Based on a true story, the screenplay was written […]