Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentThriller series “Red Light” world premieres Sunday as part of the competition section of Canneseries.
Variety spoke to its stars and co-creators Halina Reijn and Carice van Houten, and writer Esther Gerritsen.In the show, Van Houten, who played Melisandre in “Game of Thrones,” plays Sylvia, a brothel madam in Antwerp’s red light district.
Reijn is opera singer Esther, and Maaike Neuville plays Evi, a woman struggling to be both a good mother and a detective solving brutal crimes.The three women get caught up in the world of human trafficking and prostitution when Esther’s husband – a philosophy professor – disappears.