{"id":9072,"date":"2018-02-27T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/mcmafias-james-norton-juliet-rylance-hossein-amini-james-watkins\/"},"modified":"2018-02-27T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T15:39:50","slug":"mcmafias-james-norton-juliet-rylance-hossein-amini-james-watkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/mcmafias-james-norton-juliet-rylance-hossein-amini-james-watkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: McMafia\u2019s James Norton, Juliet Rylance, Hossein Amini &#038; James Watkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>McMafia<\/em> co-creators<em>\u00a0<\/em>Hossein Amini and James Watkins\u00a0share with <em>TV Drama<\/em> how they mapped out the eight-episode production, and stars James Norton and Juliet Rylance offer up insight into their characters.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; position: relative; max-width: 690px;\">\r\n \t                <div style=\"padding-top: 56.2504%;\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<video data-video-id=\"5738829507001\" \r\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-account=\"1120308147\" \r\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-player=\"default\" \r\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-embed=\"default\" \r\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-application-id \r\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"video-js\" \r\n\t\t\t\t\tcontrols=\"\"\r\n                    loop autoplay\r\n\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; right: 0px; left: 0px;\"><\/div><\/video>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/1120308147\/default_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Amini and Watkins have spent most of their careers writing and directing movies. When adapting Misha Glenny\u2019s nonfiction work <em>McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld<\/em>, however, they knew that television would be the best medium to tell a story about life in and around a mafia organization. Commissioned by the BBC, with AMC as the U.S. co-production partner, <em>McMafia<\/em> stars Norton (<em>Happy Valley<\/em>, <em>Grantchester<\/em>, <em>War &amp; Peace<\/em>) as Alex Godman, the British-raised son of Russian exiles with mafia ties who becomes embroiled in his family\u2019s criminal enterprise. The series has wrapped its run in the U.K. and begins its North American broadcast this week. 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