David Suchet and more join His Dark Materials to voice daemons
Cristela Alonzo, Joe Tanberg and Kit Connor have also signed on for the BBC fantasy series
An excellent line-up of stars - featuring David Suchet, Cristela Alonzo and Joe Tanberg - has signed on to voice daemons in the BBC's upcoming adaptation of His Dark Materials.
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Joe Tandberg voices a large polar bear called Iorek Byrnison, Alonzo voices Hester, Lee Scoresby's (Lin-Manuel Miranda) arctic hare daemon. And Suchet will play Kaisa, witch queen Serafina Pekkala's (Ruta Gedmintas) goose daemon. Check out photos of their characters below.
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Also joining the cast are Kit Connor and Brian Fisher. The former will voice Pantalaimon, Lyra's shape-shifting daemon, while the latter will provide noises for an unnamed golden monkey daemon who will be seen alongside Ruth Wilson's Marisa Coulter.
https://twitter.com/darkmaterials/status/1167461683452948481?s=20
They join an already star-studded cast that features James McAvoy, Dafne Keen, Helen McCrory and Andrew Scott.
The first series of the adaptation of Pullman's novel series - whose second run has already entered production - is due to air on the BBC this Autumn, and we can barely contain our excitement...