Cate Blanchett has co-created and will star in a new television drama about Australia’s onshore immigration detention regime.
Blanchett will also act as executive producer on Stateless along with her husband, the playwright and director Andrew Upton, and Ayres.
Stateless will begin production in South Australia in June and is expected to air on the ABC in 2020.
Stateless, a six-part drama series for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, will focus on four characters whose paths cross when they are caught up in Australia’s immigration system and held in one of Australia’s desert-based detention centres.