This teaser is set against Billie Eilish’s smash hit single ‘Bury a Friend’, which gives the footage a creepy bit of gravitas and dramatic weight. The show is headlined by Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne. We learn that on Carnival Row, different is dangerous, and monsters are very real.
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But even in darkness, hope lives, as a human detective, Rycroft Philostrate (Bloom), and a refugee faerie named Vignette Stonemoss (Delevingne) rekindle a dangerous affair despite an increasingly intolerant society. Vignette harbors a secret that endangers Philo’s world during his most important case yet: a string of gruesome murders threatening the uneasy peace of the Row.
Delevingne has a large passion for music and is a talented singer and drummer. Her Pharrell Williams produced song I Feel Everything was featured on the Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets soundtrack. With over 41 million followers on Instagram and over 10 million on Twitter, Delevingne continues to be an influential voice on social media. She often uses her platform to speak out about issues on mental health, women’s rights and animal conservation.
Joining Bloom and Delevingne, the series also stars David Gyasi (Interstellar) as Agreus, a mysteriously wealthy faun who moves into an affluent human neighborhood in defiance of the social order, Karla Crome (Under the Dome) as Tourmaline, a quick-witted faerie poet driven from her war-torn homeland, Indira Varma (Game of Thrones) as Piety Breakspear, the regal and cunning matriarch of the powerful family that rules the city of The Burgue, and Tamzin Merchant (Salem) as Imogen Spurnrose, a young woman who sees in Agreus an opportunity to turn her aristocratic family’s fading fortunes around.
Carnival Row is from Legendary Television, with executive producers Marc Guggenheim (Arrow, Eli Stone), Rene Echevarria (Star Trek, Teen Wolf, Castle, Medium), Jon Amiel, Orlando Bloom, and Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans). Beacham’s A Killing on Carnival Row, on which the project is based, appeared on the very first installment of the Hollywood Blacklist in 2005.
