DQ100 – Part two
In the second part of the DQ100 2022/23, DQ picks out a range of shows to tune in for and the actors, directors and writers making them, as well as some of the trends and trailblazers worth catching up with. ACTORS Bridget Christie Following roles in Ghosts, It’s Kevin and Cardinal Burns, Christie has landed her own series on UK broadcaster Channel 4. The comedian, actor and writer will write and star in The Change, a show pitched as “Shirley Valentine meets Deliverance. With pigs.” She plays Linda, a 50-year-old working-class married mother-of-two who is having an existential crisis – but later discovers it’s the menopause. Dusting off her old Triumph motorbike, she sets off alone to the Forest of Dean in search of an identity and purpose, meeting an array of eccentric locals along the way. Alaqua Cox Cox, a Native American actor, became an instant global star when she joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2021 as the unforgiving Maya Lopez, a character who first appeared in Disney+ show Hawkeye. In that series, Maya was revealed to be a deaf gang leader who was determined to seek revenge against the person she believed killed her father. Cox, who is deaf in real life, is now taking centre stage in Echo, a Marvel Studios series coming to Disney+ in 2023. This origin story revisits Maya, whose ruthless behaviour in New York City catches up with her in her home town, where she must face the past and reconnect with … Continue reading DQ100 – Part two
