Two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett — who beforehand starred in Documentary Now!‘s Season 3 outing, “Ready for the Artist” — is prepared for an encore, in one of many half-dozen episodes premiering this fall on IFC and AMC+.
Co-created by Fred Armisen, Invoice Hader, Seth Meyers and Rhys Thomas, and hosted by Dame Helen Mirren, Documentary Now “lovingly” pays homage to the world of documentaries. The three beforehand introduced episodes from the upcoming “Season 53,” all written by Meyers, are as follows:
* “Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport,” starring Blanchett and Harriet Walter (Killing Eve), takes its cue from vogue documentaries 3 Salons on the Seaside and The September Difficulty because it affords “a fly-on-the-wall portrait of a hair salon proprietor (Walter) and her employees (Blanchett), within the small coastal village of Bagglyport as they put together their yearly stylebook.” Armisen co-stars as George the Postman.
* “How They Threw Rocks” stars Welsh actors Trystan Gravelle (A Discovery of Witches), Jonathan Pryce (The Crown) and John Rhys-Davies (Indiana Jones), in addition to “legendary Welsh singer Tom Jones,” because it chronicles, When We Had been Kings-style, the Welsh sport of Craig Maes aka “Discipline Rock” and the long-lasting 1974 bout dubbed “The Melon vs. The Felon.”
* “My Monkey Grifter” attracts inspiration from My Octopus Trainer because it follows Benjamin Clay (The Afterparty‘s Jamie Demetriou), a filmmaker who kinds a deep, emotional and financially taxing relationship with a monkey who might have ulterior motives. Armisen performs Detective Blakely.
Extra visitor stars and the opposite three documentaries might be introduced at a later date.
