Streaming platform Apple TV+ is developing with Carême, a French drama sequence that includes the thrilling story of the world’s first celeb chef Antonin Carême, who rose from humble beginnings in Paris to the peak of culinary stardom in Napoleon’s Europe.
Consisting of eight episodes, the sequence stars César Award winner Benjamin Voisin — identified for Misplaced Illusions and Summer time of 85 — within the title function of the chef.
“Whereas he goals solely of changing into probably the most well-known chef on this planet, his expertise and ambitions appeal to the eye of famend and highly effective politicians, who use him as a spy for France,” the streamer mentioned about Carême in a press launch.
The upcoming present is impressed by the e-book ‘Cooking for Kings: The Lifetime of Antonin Carême – The First Movie star Chef,’ penned by multi-award-winning historian and actor Ian Kelly.
Carême is created by Kelly and lead author Davide Serino, with acclaimed filmmaker Martin Bourboulon serving as lead director on the sequence. It’s government produced by Vanessa van Zuylen with VVZ Manufacturing and Dominique Farrugia with Banijay’s Shine Fiction for Apple TV+.
César Award nominee Jeremie Renier because the political genius Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord and César Award winner Lyna Khoudri as Henriette, Carême’s lover and most harmful risk, additionally spherical out the solid of the sequence.
Carême joins different French programming content material from Apple TV+, which incorporates Liaison, a recent starring César Award winner Vincent Cassel and BAFTA Award winner Eva Inexperienced, and multilingual French-Japanese drama Drops of God, impressed by the bestselling manga from award-winning Tadashi Agi and Shu Okimoto, starring Fleur Geffrier and Tomohisa Yamashita.