![]() ![]() ![]() To Irish screen stalwart Cunningham - familiar from features such as Hunger and The Wind That Shakes The Barley but arguably best known for his seven-season run playing smuggler-turned-knight Davos Seaworth in Game Of Thrones - the character is “a bit of an Indiana Jones, with a very small ‘i’. But to at least one other character in the limited series about the race to stop a deadly virus invading the US, Cunningham’s Dr Wade Carter is “a pathogen-chasing wack job”.īy embodying those two extremes, Cunningham helps turn a tricky subject into a taut six-part dramatic thriller, inspired by the real-life events detailed in Richard Preston’s similarly titled 1994 non-fiction book and made for US cable network National Geographic by producer Lynda Obst, Fox 21 Television Studios and Scott Free Productions.Ī composite character with no single real-world counterpart, Carter appears both in the 1970s as a field worker in Africa who is one of the first westerners to see the terrifying effects of the Ebola virus, and in the 1980s as mentor and ally to real-life US military scientist Nancy Jaax (played by series star Julianna Margulies). Liam Cunningham’s character in The Hot Zone is officially described as a “reclusive Ebola expert”. ![]()
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