The Hull Daily Mail has pictures of the set and a video that gives us a new bit of information: that Hugh Laurie's role is Mr. Dick! (Thanks to Amy for the tip.) HughLaurious on Twitter has two pictures of Laurie in costume. The Daily Mail has pictures of Dev Patel (David) and Peter Capaldi (Mr. Micawber) in costume, along with the actor playing young David, whose name I don't know.
And IMDb has some new character IDs. We now know that Ben Whishaw is playing Uriah Heep, Tilda Swinton is (as I suspected) Aunt Betsey, Rosalind Eleazar is Agnes, and Morfydd Clark is Dora. (That last is especially interesting, as Clark also played Catherine Dickens in The Man Who Invented Christmas.) IMDb is not always the most reliable of sources, but they have it right about the actors and characters that we knew of from other sources, so I'd say it's pretty likely they're right about the rest.
I really, really hope the script is good, because I'm liking the photos a lot!
Posted by: Marian | July 13, 2018 at 02:43 PM