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Nicole Kidman is set to star alongside Maya Erskine in a brand new limited series.
Kidman will also executive produce the thriller based on Leïla Slimani’s novel The Perfect Nanny. Erskine will write and also executive produces the series.
The hot project from Legendary Entertainment was acquired by HBO who outbid competitors.
Slimani’s novel, originally published in France as Chanson Douce (Lullaby), is a thriller that follows the increasingly co-dependent relationship between a couple and the nanny they hire. It won France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2016, and its translation became an international bestseller.
The logline for the HBO project reads, “A seemingly perfect nanny goes to work for a couple with two young children, but her helpful personality eventually deteriorates into something sinister.”
The Perfect Nanny will be Kidman’s third for HBO, following the successful Big Little Lies and The Undoing. Kidman recently starred in and produced Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers and is featured in Taylor Sheridan’s upcoming Lioness at Paramount+ as well as Expats at Amazon’s Prime Video.
Erskine, meanwhile, is currently filming Mrs. and Mrs. Smith, where she stars opposite Donald Glover, for Prime Video.
Kidman and her Blossom Films partner Per Saari will executive produce with Erskine, Pascal Caucheteux of Why Not Productions and Philippe Godeau of Pan-Européenne.
