Emily Watson Joins Ian McKellen, Anthony Hopkins In BBC/Starz’ ‘The Dresser’

Production has begun in London on BBC Two/Starz drama The Dresser . Richard Eyre is directing the adaptation of Ronald Harwood's classic portrait of theater life backstage. Teaming for the first time on screen, Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins star. The two-hour TV movie has also now added Emily Watson, Happy Valley‘s Sarah Lancashire and Edward Fox — who appeared in the 1983 Oscar-nominated Peter Yates version of The Dresser that starred Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay…



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