Rivals is a riotous, entertaining new comedy drama series on Disney+, featuring an all-star British cast. To mark its launch – on October 18th – we had the pleasure in sitting down with several of the key players that make up this story. Below you can see our interviews, in their entirety, with Aidan Turner and the one-lone leading American in the cast, Nafessa Williams.
Following that we have the wonderful pairing that is Danny Dyer and Katherine Parkinson, before our hilarious chat with Bella Maclean & Victoria Smurfit. We end with an interview with supporting stars, Emily Atack and Claire Rushbrook. Enjoy!
Aidan Turner & Nafessa Williams
Danny Dyer & Katherine Parkinson
Bella Maclean & Victoria Smurfit
Emily Atack & Claire Rushbrook
Synopsis
Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O’Hara, a mega-star of great glamour and integrity with a radiant feckless wife, a son and two teenage daughters. Living rather too closely across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and as dissolute as ever, and now the Tory Minister for Sport. Declan needs only a few days at Corinium to realise that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, is a crook who has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Baddingham has also enticed Cameron Cook, a gorgeous but domineering executive, to produce Declan’s programme. Declan and Cameron detest each other, provoking a storm of controversy into which Rupert plunges with his usual abandon. As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, reputations ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made and shattered, and sex raises its (delicious) head at almost every throw as, in bed and boardroom, the race is on to capture the Cotswold Crown.
Rivals launches on Disney+ on October 18th.
