MARTIN SHEEN STARS IN BBC ONE’S THE WHALE

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Multiple award-winner Martin Sheen (The West Wing, The Amazing Spider-Man) stars in The Whale, a 90-minute film for BBC One. Based on true events, the film tells one of history’s greatest stories of survival at sea.

Written by Terry Cafolla (Holy Cross, Messiah), Martin Sheen plays Old Thomas Nickerson, who tells a story of his life as a cabin boy on the ill-fated voyage of the Essex whaling ship.

Martin Sheen leads the cast as the elder Nickerson with Jonas Armstrong (Robin Hood, The Street) as First Mate Owen Chase, Adam Rayner (The Hunted) as Captain Pollard, Paul Kaye (Game Of Thrones, Stella) as Joy, David Gyasi (Cloud Atlas, War Horse) as Peterson and Jolyon Coy (The Hollow Crown) as Lawrence. Also starring Jassa Ahluwalisa, John Boyega and Ferdinand Kingsley, and introducing Charles Furness as the young Tom Nickerson.

The action-packed narrative follows Nickerson as, against all odds, he comes through the worst that nature throws at him, growing up fast in the process. He faces the destructive force of sea storms, the power of whales, the brutal desolation of the sun and sea after the shipwreck, and finally, the grim realities of dark deeds as his only means of survival.

With breathtaking underwater shots and specialist equipment used to create storm scenes, The Whale beautifully captures the Essex caught in the treacherous sea storm.

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