The cast has been announced for Charlotte Regan’s debut television series, Mint, which is currently filming in Glasgow.
Regan, who was talent-spotted by Michael Fassbender’s production company, Finn McCool Films, is behind the film, Scrapper, which won the Grand Jury Prize 2023’s Sundance Film Festival.
Mint is a “darkly comic, unconventional drama” about a crime family’s inner life.
The 8-parter is being made by BBC Studios’ House Productions (Sherwood, Conclave, The Iron Claw) and indie film producers Fearless Minds (The Critic, Soulmates) for BBC iPlayer and BBC One.
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At the centre of Mint is Shannon (Emma Laird – The Brutalist, Mayor of Kingstown), the naïve and fiercely romantic daughter of the area’s dominant crime family. Shannon is desperately searching for love in the shadow of her gangster father, Dylan (Sam Riley – Firebrand, Rebecca)), devoted mum Cat (Laura Fraser – Patience, Breaking Bad), older brother Luke (Lewis Gribben – Somewhere Boy, Black Mirror) and the indomitable family matriarch, grandma Ollie (Lindsay Duncan – TrueLove, Sherwood).
It also features the acting debut of musician, Loyle Carner.
“I had a little cry the other day thinking about how incredible this cast are. Absolute emotional wreck. But I honestly can’t imagine these characters being brought into the world by better human beings. Every single one of them is going to smash it and I feel so grateful to have them all onboard,” said Charlotte Regan.
Mint was commissioning by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama.
It is produced by Angus Lamont (The Wonder, Tin Star), and executive produced by Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Theo Barrowclough for House Productions, Jolyon Symonds for Fearless Minds, and Rebecca Ferguson for the BBC.
