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Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys Star in the Netflix Thriller The Beast in Me
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Matthew Rhys as Nile Jarvis: The Beast in Me. Image courtesy of Netflix.
Claire Danes returns to television this fall in The Beast in Me, premiering November 13 on Netflix. The eight-episode series follows acclaimed author Aggie Wiggs (Danes), who has withdrawn from public life after the tragic death of her son. When a mysterious new neighbor moves in next door, Aggie finds herself drawn back into the world through an obsession that could destroy her.
Her neighbor, Nile Jarvis (Matthew Rhys), is a charismatic real estate mogul once suspected of murdering his wife. Against all reason, Aggie approaches him with a proposition: permission to write a book about his story. From there, the series unfolds as a tense psychological duel between two damaged people, one chasing truth, the other perhaps hiding it.
“Did you kill her?” Aggie asks in the trailer. “What do you think?” Nile answers. That sharp exchange, as reported by Tudum, sets the tone for a story that tests boundaries between morality and obsession. Aggie’s friend and agent, played by Deirdre O’Connell, cautions her: “Spending all that time with a possible murderer doesn’t scare you?” Maybe it should.
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Claire Danes as author Aggie Wiggs: The Beast in Me. Image courtesy of Netflix.
Danes, who also serves as an executive producer, told Tudum she drew inspiration from The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcolm’s study of the uneasy bond between a writer and her subject. “You start to see this writer and this murderer have a kind of equal value,” Danes said. “This idea of writer as sniper, as a potentially predatory character, was really interesting.”
Rhys, best known for The Americans, described the connection between the two leads as one built on mutual recognition. “There is enormous similarity between them,” he explained. “They see each other as peers, very unlikely peers.”
Created by Gabe Rotter (The X-Files) and showrun by Howard Gordon (Homeland), The Beast in Me comes from 20th Television with direction by Antonio Campos (The Staircase). The cast also includes Brittany Snow, Natalie Morales, and guest star Jonathan Banks.
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