FX Announces Cast for Limited Series 'Say Nothing'

It's been over a year since FX CEO John Landgraf first casually mentioned the network had scooped up the rights to Patrick Radden Keefe's best-selling nonfiction novel Say Nothing about the Troubles in Ireland. Unfortunately, that was all FX said about it at the time, and there's been little in the way of updates since. But just ahead of the 2024 Winter Television Critics Association panels, the network announced the first major movement on the series, with a cast and director.

For those who have not read the book 2018's Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Keefe used the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville as a window into the IRA's central figures of the era: the late Dolours Price and Brendan Hughes, Dolours' sister, Marian Price, and the man who would eventually broker the Good Friday Agreement, Gerry Adams. Like many, McConnville was one of those known as "The Disappeared."

The new series has cast three major up-and-comers to lead the series. Lola Petticrew, who viewers will remember from Bloodlands, will star as Dolours Price, Hazel Doupe, who is currently leading Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale, plays Marian, and Anthony Boyle, a major part of the Masters of the Air ensemble, plays Hughes.