“The Great White,” ABC Australia’s upcoming legal workplace drama series from See-Saw Films, has bolstered its cast with filming now underway in Sydney.
Alongside the previously announced Hugo Weaving, Eamon Farren (“Jimpa,” The Witcher”), Arlo Green (“Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant,” “M3GAN”), Miranda Otto (“Talk to Me,” “The Lord of the Rings”) and Sacha Horler (“The Dressmaker,” “Peter Rabbit”) have joined the show, as have Brigid Zengeni (“The Artful Dodger,” “Missing You”), James Majoos (“Heartbreak High”), Emily Barclay (“Babyteeth,” “Inbetween”) and Dinasha Perera.
Behind the camera, Alyssa McClelland (“Sex Education,” “My Brilliant Career”) serves as set-up director, actor and filmmaker Mia Wasikowska makes her TV directing debut and Cannes-selected Samantha Lang (“The Well,” “Carlotta”) also directs.
From ABC, Screen Australia and U.K. and Australia-based See-Saw, the Mediawan-owned and Oscar-winning powerhouse production company behind “Slow Horses,” “Apple Cider Vinegar” and “Heartstopper,” “The Great White” sees Weaving play a brilliant but disgraced barrister who is slapped with a twelve-month supervision order for professional misconduct and finds himself working out of a struggling law office. Crushed by debt and desperate to restore his reputation, he reluctantly takes on a dangerous dog case he considers far beneath him.
