Haley Lu Richardson is set to join Emilia Clarke in Peacock’s espionage thriller Ponies. Peacock has recently ordered Ponies straight to series, with Clarke set to play the role of Bea. Clarke will also serve as one of the executive producers.
Deadline also reports that Richardson will be playing Twila, “a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless.”
“Moscow, 1977. Two “PONIES” (“persons of no interest” in intelligence speak) work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives,” the series description reads. “Bea (Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila, is a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.”
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