EXCLUSIVE: Joy Nash (The Mindy Project, Twin Peaks) has landed the lead role in Dietland, AMC’s ten-episode straight-to-series darkly comedic drama based on Sarai Walker’s 2015 novel of the same name.
Dietland, from Marti Noxon (UnReal), Skydance TV and AMC Studios, is set against the backdrop of the beauty industry. Part-character drama and part-revenge fantasy, it explores society’s obsession with weight loss and beauty in a bold, original and funny way.
Nash will play Plum Kettle, obese all her life and preparing for lap band surgery when her world is upturned by two rival feminist factions. Caught between old ideas and radical new extremes, Plum must decide for herself what it means to be a revolutionary as the ‘war of the sexes’ becomes literal.
Dietland, from Marti Noxon (UnReal), Skydance TV and AMC Studios, is set against the backdrop of the beauty industry. Part-character drama and part-revenge fantasy, it explores society’s obsession with weight loss and beauty in a bold, original and funny way.
Nash will play Plum Kettle, obese all her life and preparing for lap band surgery when her world is upturned by two rival feminist factions. Caught between old ideas and radical new extremes, Plum must decide for herself what it means to be a revolutionary as the ‘war of the sexes’ becomes literal.
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