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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Jeffries

British and Irish actors stage reverse takeover in Spielberg’s Masters of the Air

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Ncuti Gatwa in a promotional shot for Masters Of The Air
Ncuti Gatwa is one of the British actors taking on American roles. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/Apple

It’s June 1943 and the Yanks are coming. They’re filling East Anglian skies with 11-man Flying Fortresses in a scene echoed today by budget airlines returning sunburned Britons to Stansted from Mediterranean fleshpots.

Welcome to Masters of the Air, the second world war drama produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, which touches down on Apple TV+ on 26 January. This eagerly awaited $200m, Covid-delayed epic is a spiritual successor to their earlier wartime shows Band of Brothers (2001) and The Pacific (2010).

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