Harry Potter star Paapa Essiedu took a break last year from filming HBO’s reboot of the iconic franchise to make an intimate series for the BBC about baby loss.
Following a difficult week during which Essiedu said he had received death threats over his Severus Snape casting, he told Deadline that Stefan Golaszewski’s Babies has had a lasting impact on him.
“When we had the physical manifestations of baby loss within the home, well there are still days where I think about some of the things I saw and heard in those scenes,” said Essiedu. “More because they were so real and so authentic.”
In Babies, Essiedu is Stephen, navigating baby loss with his wife Lisa, played by Bodkin star Siobhán Cullen. Charlotte Riley and Jack Bannon also star as a nascent couple.
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