A spy thriller from the creator of Peaky Blinders is coming to Hulu this spring.

Titled The Veil and starring The Handmaid’s Story star Elisabeth Moss, the brand new restricted sequence follows the fraught relationship between a British intelligence agent and the lady she suspects of being a high-level member of ISIS. As the 2 journey collectively throughout the Center East and Europe, they’re going to deal with their very own variations and interference from different world governments.

“The factor that appeals to me most is when large, large, large worldwide conflicts boil all the way down to people,” creator Steven Knight instructed members of the Tv Critics Affiliation (TCA) at their winter press tour. “What I needed to do with [The Veil] is to take enormous points and boil it down to 2 individuals in a automobile, driving by the snow.”

What’s The Veil about?

Elisabeth Moss and Yumna Marwan in “The Veil.”
Credit score: FX

Moss performs Imogen Salter, an MI6 agent with the uncanny capacity to shapeshift into no matter new identification her mission requires. “It is like performing occasions 100,” Moss mentioned at TCA. She additionally likened Imogen’s capacity to imagine and let go of recent personas to being an actor, which helped her discover the character.

Imogen’s newest goal? Get near Adilah El Idrissi (Yumna Marwan), a girl believed to be an ISIS commander. What follows is an element highway journey sequence, half espionage thriller. Imogen and Adilah’s journey from Syria to Paris provides them loads of alternatives to get to know each other — however how a lot are these two extraordinarily secretive girls actually freely giving? Are they uncomfortable allies, or is there a real friendship brewing right here?

Whereas Imogen and Adilah are on the highway, the French DGSE and American CIA conflict of their makes an attempt to take management of the state of affairs, uncovering info that means that 1000’s of lives are in peril. The selection to include the DGSE — and actually, all the genesis of The Veil — got here from an opportunity encounter between govt producer Denise Di Novi and a retired French agent.

“I do not assume this ever would have occurred if I hadn’t been in a lodge bar and a retired DGSE agent had too many drinks and began speaking to me, telling me about how troublesome it’s that they needed to begin working with different businesses and the way a lot they did not prefer it,” Di Novi mentioned.

Steven Knight hints that there may very well be extra Imogen Salter sooner or later.

Elisabeth Moss and Yumna Marwan capturing “The Veil.”
Credit score: Christine Tamalet/FX

Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Story, Mad Males) and Yumna Marwan (Little Birds, Inshallah a Boy) function The Veil‘s central pair, with Moss govt producing as nicely. The remainder of the solid consists of Dali Benssalah (No Time to Die, Athena) as Malik Amar, Imogen’s ally inside DGSE, and Josh Charles (Lifeless Poets Society, The Good Spouse) as Max Peterson, a CIA agent who butts heads with Malik.

Peaky Blinders creator and author Steven Knight developed and wrote The Veil. The present is billed as a restricted sequence, however when requested if he noticed potential for extra Imogen Salter tales, Knight nodded enthusiastically. “Completely,” he mentioned.

The Veil premieres April 30 on Hulu.