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The series also flashes back to Leonardo and Caterina’s first meeting when she is an artist’s model and he’s a young painter learning his craft. "We try to get to the core of who this person was, and the man behind the artist." But there was a real element of mystery to Leonardo's life and so much we don't know," Aidan told us. It all begins with Leonardo’s life hanging in the balance when he’s arrested for the murder of his beloved friend Caterina da Cremona, and he has to battle to clear his name in the face of intense questioning by dogged detective Stefano Giraldi. What happens in the first episode of Leonardo. contains spoilers! A US release date is still to be confirmed. Release date for Leonardo on Amazon Prime VideoĮight-part drama Leonardo launched in the UK and Ireland on April 16 on Amazon Prime Video. "To do that, you need to get really close to his work." "The intention is not just to say that Leonardo was a genius, but to really show why he was a genius and have the audience understand what it was that made him so brilliant and radical and centuries ahead of this time," says Spotnitz. As an actor, to explore the inner workings of this great artist was a very exciting and humbling experience and I feel so fortunate to have worked with such a great team in Rome to make this series happen."Ĭreated by Sherlock writer Stephen Thompson and The Man in the High Castle's Frank Spotnitz, the series also stars The Good Doctor’s Freddie Highmore as the police detective investigating da Vinci and James D'Arcy as real-life Italian prince Ludovico Sforza.
Set in Italy in the 1400s, the costume drama sees Leonardo da Vinci under suspicion of murder from a Milan police officer who begins looking into the genius's life and work in a bid to uncover exactly what links him to the case.Īidan Turner says: “As we know, Leonardo da Vinci was a man who created an incredible body of work across so many disciplines.