“The Veil”
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the miniseries.
- The Veil is an American thriller television limited series
- It is written by Steven Knight
- The series was produced by FX Productions
- Starring Elisabeth Moss and Yumna Marwan
- The series premiered on FX on Hulu on April 30, 2024
- A thriller series about a potentially deadly game of truth and lies as two women travel from Istanbul to Paris and London
- With one of them possessing a secret that the other needs to expose
- The project was announced in August 2022
- It marks the fourth series Steven Knight has made with FX Productions
- Knight also acts as executive producer
- Elisabeth Moss is also executive producer via her Love & Squalor production company for whom Lindsey McManus is also an executive producer
- Denise Di Novi and Nina Tassler of PatMa Productions also executive produce
- Elisabeth Moss was confirmed in the lead role in August 2022
- Moss has stated that developing an authentic British accent and practicing the action and stunt choreography to make her character believable was more challenging than any previous role
- She started learning the accent several months before filming began
- In February 2023, Josh Charles, Dali Benssalah, and Yumna Marwan joined the cast
- In March 2023, Haluk Bilginer was added to the cast
- The cast also includes Alec Secareanu, Thibault de Montalembert, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, James Purefoy, Joana Ribeiro, Phill Langhorne, Dan Wyllie, Aron von Andrian, and Dali Benssalah
- Filming took place in Turkey, which wrapped in March 2023
- Other filming locations include Paris and London
- Filming took place in Kent, England in May 2023
- With locations including Canterbury Cathedral
- Whilst filming a stunt in Istanbul, Moss fractured a vertebrae in her spine
- The series was shown on Hulu in the United States
- Premiering on April 30, 2024, with a two episode premiere
- Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ under the Star banner internationally
- The show will reportedly consist of six episodes
- Concluding on May 28, 2024
- With episodes being released weekly
- The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 42% approval rating
- With an average rating of 5.9/10
- Based on 12 critic reviews
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 54 out of 100
- Based on 10 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average reviews”
