Claire Danes to replace Kate Winslet on new Hulu series with Ewan McGregor

As previously reported, the series centers on a successful surgeon (Danes) and her husband (McGregor), who come to suspect that she might have been the culprit of a hit-and-run incident that killed a child. Which sounds pretty heavy, even for actors who are fresh off A Gentleman In Moscow (McGregor) and HBO Max’s Full Circle (Danes). The latter miniseries presumably explaining why Danes got the nod here, by the by: That series was executive produced and showrun by Solomon, who’s covered a very wide swathe of tones over the course of his career, from the Bill And Ted movies, through recent Steven Soderbergh collaborations like Full Circle.

Variety notes that, while Danes and McGregor—who came up as it-folk during roughly the same period of Hollywood success—have never officially worked together before, they did have at least one close call in the past: They were set to be the leads in at least one of the iterations of Flora Plum, the circus performer biopic that Jodie Foster spent the first several years of the new millennium trying to get made. That project ultimately fell apart, but here we are 20-plus years down the line, with the pair reunited, sans tightrope, at last.