EXCLUSIVE: Gradual Horses star Hiba Bennani will star reverse Asaad Bouab in MBC drama sequence Rass Jbel.
She is going to play feminine lead Yasmina within the present, which is a Moroccan adaptation of Lebanese-Syrian drama Al Hayba (الهيبة), which Cedars Artwork Manufacturing made again in 2017. Nora Skali, Amine Ennaji, Salwa Zarhane, Nasser Akabab and Oussama Bastaoui additionally star.
Rafic Elzein is producing for Cedars Artwork Manufacturing, as is Amine Benjelloun for Ali n’ Productions. Center Japanese broadcaster MBC will run the present.
The present is billed as a “high-stakes saga of affection, honour, and energy,” by which Yasmina returns from Montreal to bury her husband on;y finds herself unwillingly trapped within the city of Rass Jbel. Decided to remain near her son – the inheritor to the formidable Fadlaoui clan – she is compelled to make more and more harmful compromises to guard him.
The unique sequence was for MBC Drama, Netflix, Shahid, MTV Lebanon, and Orbit Showtime, and ran for 5 seasons between 2017 and 2020 as a scores hit within the Arabic-speaking world. It was additionally tailored in Turkey as Al Madina Al Baida.
Bennani’s star has been rising since she performed the advanced Tara in Season 5 of Apple TV drama sequence Gradual Horses reverse the likes of Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden and Kristin Scott Thomas.
Her different current roles embody elements in one other Apple TV present, conspiracy thriller Prime Goal, French-Arabic quick Donkey Pores and skin, comedy-drama 1995, Moroccian social TV drama 2 Wjouh and Showtime/Paramount+ espionage sequence Ghosts of Beirut.
Her casting in Rass Jbel was first hinted at on the purple carpet of the Marrakech Worldwide Movie Pageant.