Emily Watson to star in Dominic Cooke’s drama ‘John Daniel’

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According to Deadline, Emily Watson (Hamnet, Chernobyl) has been cast in the lead role of Dominic Cooke’s British drama 'John Daniel'. She will play Alyce Cunningham, a fiercely independent English woman who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a baby gorilla in the aftermath of the First World War. Based on a true story, the screenplay was written by Alexi Kaye Campbell and inspired by home movie footage and photographs recorded by locals in Uley, Gloucestershire, between 1918 and 1922. The story follows Cunningham, who is forced to take in a baby gorilla after her reckless nephew rescues it from a London department store.