Watch Keeley Hawes and Richard Madden in the Netflix Trailer for ‘Bodyguard’
The BBC’s hit drama Bodyguard is coming to America this month and streaming service Netflix has dropped their first trailer for the political thriller.
The six-part series stars popular Game of Thrones actor Richard Madden as a war veteran David Budd, who goes to work for as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Branch of London’s Metropolitan Police Service. He’s almost immediately assigned to guard the controversial Home Secretary, Julia Montague, played by The Durrells in Corfu star Keeley Hawes. Montague, a woman who frequently advocates some rather draconian and horrifying policies in the name of thwarting terrorism, leaves David torn between duty and personal conviction. Can he put his own views aside in order to protect her as things literally explode all around them?
Bodyguard was a smash hit for BBC One, becoming the corporation’s most-watched drama in the past decade. Given the quick turnaround time between its British broadcast and its American debut – the series wrapped its final episode just a couple of weeks ago – Netflix must think the series can pull solid numbers for them here in the States.
