Among the shows nominated at next month’s Primetime Emmys ceremony is Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette.
The rising star who portrays Bessette has remained red hot in Hollywood, having just joined a buzzy new Netflix series that already features a number of big names.
Deadline announced on Wednesday, August 27 that Sarah Pidgeon is now starring in Enigma Variations, an upcoming series based on the bestselling 2018 novel of the same name by André Aciman (who also wrote Call Me By Your Name).
Deadline also took to Instagram to share the casting update this week, with followers weighing in with their reactions. See below.
Fans have since thrown their support behind Pidgeon in the post’s comments section. “Go Sarah GOOO,” wrote one Instagram user, while another person commented, “The new girl.”
Enigma Variations also stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alicia Vikander and Riley Keough.
The 2018 source material “charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence,” according to a synopsis by Macmillan Publishers. “Whether the setting is southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men; whether he’s on a tennis court in Central Park, or on a New York sidewalk in early spring, his attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire—not for just one person’s body but, inevitably, for someone else’s as well.”
The synopsis continues, “In Enigma Variations, Aciman maps the most inscrutable corners of passion, proving to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche and a master stylist. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid, he casts a sensuous, shimmering light over each facet of desire to probe how we ache, want, and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of those who may want to offer only what we crave from them.”
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