Saoirse Monica Jackson: From Derry Girls to Netflix show The Decameron  

Saoirse Monica Jackson was delighted to be able to keep her Derry accent for the lighthearted new period drama, writes Esther McCarthy
Saoirse Monica Jackson: From Derry Girls to Netflix show The Decameron  

Zosia Mamet and Saoirse-Monica Jackson in The Decameron on Netflix.

She shot to fame as the frank and feisty Erin in one of TV’s most-beloved shows. Now Saoirse-Monica Jackson is building on the global success of Derry Girls with a leading role in a new series on Netflix.

The Decameron offers a very different but no less lively sense of dramedy. Set during the height of the Black Plague in 14th-century Florence, the series centres on a group of nobles and their servants, invited to sit out the pestilence with a wine-drenched holiday in a lavish Italian villa.

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