Paapa Essiedu, star of HBO’s upcoming “Harry Potter” series and a newly-crowned Olivier Award winner, has taken time away from playing Professor Snape to join Maxine Peake (“I Swear,” “Say Nothing”) in the British short film “Laundreams.”
Producer Tobi Kyeremateng, who won the BAFTA TV for best short form for 2023’s “How to Be a Person,” has also joined the project, which marks the debut film from writer-director duo Amber Gadd and Evie Ward-Drummond.
Essiedu stars in the rural Sheffield-set coming-of-age short alongside Ward-Drummond (“G’WED”), David Fielder (“Peterloo”) and Gadd, making her screen acting debut. Peake executive produces alongside Kyeremateng, Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton and Mustapha Wehbi.
“Laundreams” is set inside a working laundrette filmed on location in Ward-Drummond’s family business and follows Minnie and Leah, two twenty-somethings who have never left their hometown. When former coworker Danny (Essiedu) unexpectedly returns from London, the pair spiral into a chaotic attempt to impress him, only to discover that the lives and relationships they’ve overlooked may be exactly what they need.
The short is produced by Nina Georgieff and Anna Sophia Duff for Muckea, in association with Little Lark Productions and Oscar-winning Slick Films.
