Adarsh Gourav Bags 'Extrapolations', Will Star Alongside Meryl Streep, David Schwimmer And Kit Harington

Adarsh Gourav, who made heads turn and soon became the breakout star of 'The White Tiger,' is all set for his next project.

The actor will be sharing screen space with 'best of the best from Hollywood', including Meryl Streep, Gemma Chan, Kit Harington, and David Schwimmer.

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Scott Z Burns' climate change anthology drama series 'Extrapolations' is being bankrolled by Apple TV Plus and star Sienna Miller, Tahar Rahim, Matthew Rhys, and Daveed Diggs reported Deadline.

The series will revolve around stories of how upcoming changes to the planet will affect love, faith, work, and families on a personal and human scale.

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Told over a season of eight interconnected episodes, each story in the scripted series will track the worldwide battle for our mutual survival spanning the 21st century.

Adarsh Gourav, nominated for the leading actor BAFTA for the Netflix film 'The White Tiger,' will play Gaurav, a driver for hire on the show. Streep's role has not been disclosed, but Miller will play marine biologist Rebecca Shearer.

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In a statement, Adarsh Gourav said,

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¡°This is beyond anything I can express, to be honest. But to be working with such an incredible team at such an early juncture of my career is truly rewarding. I¡¯m elated to be part of this project and grateful that I will be working alongside some of the very best in the business."

He added, "I have grown up and looked up each of my co-stars and to now be sharing screen space with them is incredible. This story is such an important one to be told for our current generation and is tied in with realities of today¡±. (Also read: 'Seeing My Name Next To Anthony Hopkins Was Like A Dream', Adarsh Gourav On Losing BAFTA Award)

'Eternals' co-stars Harington and Chan will play Nicholas Bilton, the CEO of an industrial giant, and Natasha Alper, a single mother and micro-finance banker, respectively.

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'Friends' alum Schwimmer will play the role of Harris Goldblatt, a father to a teenage daughter, and another best actor BAFTA nominee Rahim ("The Mauritanian") stars as Ezra Haddad, a man struggling with memory loss.

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'Perry Mason' star Rhys essays the role of Junior, a real estate developer, with Diggs of 'Hamilton' fame starring as Marshall Zucker, a rabbi in South Florida.

Talking about 'Extrapolation,' Burns said,

"The only thing we know for sure about the future is that we are all going there together ¡ª and we're taking with us our hopes, our fears, our appetites, our creativity, our capacity for love, and our predilection to cause pain. These are the same tools that storytellers have been using since the beginning of time. Our show is just using them to keep time from running out."

Ellenberg, Greg Jacobs, Dorothy Fortenberry, and Lindsey Springer are also the series's executive producers.

(With inputs from PTI)