by James White |
48 minutes ago
Neil Cross might be best known to TV viewers as the man who created John "Loofah" Luther, the hard-bitten London copper brought to life by Idris Elba in a big coat. But more recently, the versatile writer/producer has been going in a very different direction, adapting Paul Theroux's 1981 novel
The Mosquito Coast for Apple TV+. As the series wraps up its first season this week, we hopped on Zoom to talk about why he took on the challenge, finding the right actor for the complicated main character and having to reconfigure the season in the wake of the pandemic. Oh, and he also offers a little hint about the future of everyone's favourite tough 'tec.