For more news, follow us on Facebook and Twitter but never miss the latest top headlines and sign up to our daily newsletter here . Even if Eve is a fictional character in comparison to David Stirling or Paddy Mayne, she is very much a character that existed at the time," reveals Sofia Boutella. After joining and forging the SAS, he was finally in an environment in which he could utilise his skills, his rebelliousness and his all-out want to progress and turn the fate of the war.

On 4 December 2022, the BBC confirmed that a second series had been commissioned, based upon SAS operations in the European theatre of war. Frustrated with the military command and their handling of war in North Africa David Stirling and Jock Lewes formulate a plan to parachute men into the desert to attack enemy forces from behind the front line. In March 2021, it was announced that filming had begun on the six-part miniseries, with Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen, Sofia Boutella and Dominic West in starring roles.She is the deputy head of French intelligence in Cairo under General de Gaulle’s command and does not play by the rules.

David Stirling was the real-life founder of the SAS, who when we first meet him in the series is an eccentric young officer serving with 8 Commando. He also had a small role in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and is set to play a young Mohamed Al-Fayed in flashbacks for season 5 of The Crown. Billy Foley, writing in The Irish News, was somewhat more critical of the artistic license employed, particularly in the depiction of Paddy Mayne. He has also appeared in White House Farm, John Wick and The Predator, amongst other series and films. Stirling was captured in 1943, subsequently escapes and is recaptured, before finding himself in Colditz for the rest of the war.Boutella is known for appearing in films such as The Mummy, Atomic Blonde, Star Trek Beyond and Kingsman: The Secret Service, while she also recently appeared in an episode of Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities.