The First Trailer for 'Patience' Was Worth the Wait
Over on Walter Presents, Astrid (Astrid et Raphaëlle) is hitting peak popularity, as the series' fourth season is handed the honor of kicking off the foreign language anthology series' 2025 slate at the beginning of January. However, the true sign of a Walter Presents series officially being a hit is for the anthology's executive producers, Jo McGrath and Walter Iuzzolino, optioning the rights to remake it as a U.K. set series via their other company, Eagle Eye Drama. Lo, Astrid's English-language remake, retitled Patience, is also arriving at the beginning of January... across the pond on Channel 4.
Like Eagle Eye's other major remake hit, the English-language Professor T with Ben Miller, remaking Astrid for U.K. and U.S. audiences was a no-brainer decision. Professor T was an obvious choice since the Flemish language series had already been remade in French, German, and Czech. Astrid is also an obvious choice because of the material: the France 2 series follows the adventures of DCI Raphaëlle Coste (Lola Dewaere) and police archivist Astrid Nielsen (Sara Mortensen), an autistic savant who Raphaëlle comes across hiding herself away in the basement of the precinct.
However, Mortensen is a neurotypical actor playing a person with ASD. The English remake quietly corrects this bias, with neurodivergent actor Ella Maisy Purvis playing neurodivergent protagonist Patience Evans (the series' titular analog of Astrid) in the new version. Laura Fraser (Outlander) plays Bea Metcalf, the show’s version of Raphaëlle Coste. Check out the trailer:
