He’s joined forces in a three-pronged collaboration between Sky, HBO, and Canal Plus to bring his English-language series The Young Pope to screen, as Law plays the conflicted first American pontiff Pius XIII; introduced on the morning of his first day in office, ready to enter into the secretive struggles of the Vatican state.
The Young Pope airs in October exclusively on Sky Atlantic.
Lenny Belardo, aka Pius XIII, is the first American Pope in history.
And now you can, in fact, thanks to the lush imagination of Paolo Sorrentino, best known for his Oscar-winning Fellini-esque tale of depravity, The Great Beauty.