An espionage thriller that can be seen on Disney+ starting June 26
One of the most anticipated series premieres is The Veil (The veil), an action, mystery and espionage thriller which can be seen on the Disney+ streaming platform starting Wednesday, June 26. An ambitious series from Steven Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinderswhich stars actress Elisabeth Moss whom we know for her performance as The Handmaid’s Tale for which he received an Emmy.
According to those responsible for the series, it is an action and espionage thriller that has “the spirit of Thelma and Louise” and features the story of Imogen Salter, a clever MI6 agent, who is capable of changing identity with great ease. Thanks to this ability she becomes a perfect candidate to infiltrate a Turkish-Syrian refugee camp, in order to free a woman named Adilah El Idrissi.
The Veil: an ambitious series
This series It was created by Steven Knightone of the best-known screenwriters in the United Kingdom with fictions such as Peaky Blinders, Taboo either See. An ambitious production directed by Daina Reid and Damon Thomas and starring actresses Elisabeth Moss and Yumna Marwanel
In The Veil is done a portrait of the complex world of international intelligence and the mysterious figures that operate in it. The series premiered its first two episodes on April 30 on Hulu in the United States. In Spain it will be able to be seen on Disney+, like all the productions that have been released in recent years on FX and Hulu.
What is going to happen in The Veil?
This action-thriller miniseries follows this MI6 agent on the complex mission of infiltrating a Turkish-Syrian refugee camp. to free a woman named Adilah El Idrissi. Imogen Salter will have to convince this woman to reveal some important secrets to her and this will force him to ask questions about his own moral code and her mysterious past.
The refugee camp is near the Syrian-Turkish border and the conflict begins when a woman boards the United Nations truck to help distribute international aid food. When another refugee identifies her as a member of the Islamic State and as the murderer of her family, things go wrong for the first woman.
Imogen, the agent of the British intelligence service, will have to discover if Adilah El Idrissi (Yumna Marwan), the accused, is one of the few women in a position of power within of the terrorist organization, a key piece of the network, or if he is simply a victim. Can Adilah be a fearsome terrorist or not?
The cast of the series The Veil
The actress Elisabeth Moss plays the role of Imogen, the MI6 agent and actress Yumna Marwanel of Adilah El Idrissi, the alleged terrorist. Elisabeth Moss is a British-American actress and producer who is known for the character of Peggy Olson in the series Mad Men and for her role as June Osborne in the series The Handmaid’s Tale, for which she received two Emmys in 2017 for her work as an actress and producer.
The actress Yumna Marwanel is the protagonist of the television series Little Birds, in which she plays the role of dominatrix Cherifa Lamor. In 2023 she played Lauren in Amjad Al-Rasheed’s drama film Inshallah a Boy. With her role as Adilah El Idrissi in this new Disney + series she has surprised everyone.
Also in the cast of this series are the actors Joana Ribeiro (The man who killed Don Quixote)Dan Wyllie (The secret city), Karol Steele (SouthcliffeEdit), Dali Benssalah (The two faces of justice) and Josh Charles (The Good Wife), among others.
Other Disney+ bets for the summer
The Veil It is one of the bets of the Disney+ streaming platform on series for this summer along with the premiere of Under the Bridge: The Murder of Reena Virk which premieres on July 10, the third season of the fun The one in charge on July 19, the second of Almost dead on July 3 or the fifth of What we do in the shadows. Also on July 12 the musical film premieres The Descendants: Rebel Heart on Disney+.
The highlight of the streaming platform is lto series Under the bridge: the murder of Reena Virk tells how on November 14, 1997 in the quiet suburbs of Victoria, capital of the province of British Columbia (Canada), 14-year-old Reena Virk was savagely beaten and drowned by a group of teenagers. A horrible crime that became a media spectacle due to society’s sensitivity to violence involving girls and adolescents.
