The White Lotus actress is set to star in Peacock’s espionage thriller, joining previously announced Emilia Clarke in a series regular role.
Peacock has recently ordered Ponies straight to series, with Clarke set to play the role of Bea. It is co-created by Susanna Fogel (The Spy Who Dumped Me) and David Iserson (Mr.
Robot). In addition to starring, Clarke will serve as one of the executive producers alongside Jessica Rhoades (Station Eleven), Fogel, and Iserson, with Katherine Bridle and Alison Mo Massey as co-executive producers.
According to Deadline, Richardson will be playing Twila, “a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless.” The upcoming spy thriller will follow two Ponies (persons of no interest) as they work together to unravel a Cold War conspiracy. “Moscow, 1977.
Two “PONIES” (“persons of no interest” in intelligence speak) work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives,” the series description reads. “Bea (Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants.