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Malachi Kirby will play both Charles Nancy and Spider for the new TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys.

“Malachi Kirby is an actor of astonishing sensitivity, charm, and power,” Gaiman said of the casting of the Small Axe actor. “We needed somebody who could bring us the humanity of Charlie and the godly dangerousness of Spider; who could play two very different characters and who could in many ways carry the show. We found Malachi, and I am so thrilled that we did. He’s astonishing.”

The six part series is being written by Gaiman and Lenny Henry, with Gaiman and Douglas Mackinnon as showrunners, and Hanelle M Culpepper directing the opener. It starts shooting in Scotland later this year.