Watch: See Toni Collette in the trailer for The Power
Toni Collette can be seen bringing Naomi Alderman’s bestselling novel The Power to life in a first-look trailer for the TV adaptation.
She stars as Mayor Margot Cleary-Lopez in Prime Video’s TV series of the novel by British author Alderman, which imagines a world where suddenly, and without warning, teenage girls develop the power to electrocute people at will.
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Collette’s character can be heard saying in the trailer: “This power is evolution.”
Scenes from the series show young women starting to realise the power they have at their fingertips, as one says: “I was living in constant fear, now I feel 100 times stronger. Can you imagine that kind of power?”
While some characters celebrate their new abilities, others are shown forming armed groups and one scene shows Collette’s character at the site of a plane crash.
One woman is heard saying: “Big change is coming. Pick a side.”
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The series spans London to Seattle, Nigeria to Eastern Europe as the power balance of the world begins to shift.
It also stars John Leguizamo as Rob Lopez, Auli’i Cravalho as Jos Cleary-Lopez, Toheeb Jimoh as Tunde Ojo, Josh Charles as Daniel Dandon, Eddie Marsan as Bernie Monke, Ria Zmitrowicz as Roxy Monke, Zrinka Cvitešić as Tatiana Moskalev, and Halle Bush as Allie Montgomery.
Alderman first published The Power in 2016 and won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2017 for her acclaimed work.
The Power has been adapted by the team behind hit series Chernobyl and will begin streaming on Prime Video on Friday, 31 March, dropping in weekly instalments until the series finale on 12 May.
Other anticipated shows coming to Prime Video this year include the second season of popular documentary Clarkson’s Farm, which reunites Jeremy Clarkson and Kaleb Cooper for another series about their trials and tribulations at Diddly Squat Farm, launching on 10 February.
