Exclusive: Leo Woodall & Quintessa Swindell talk Prime Target
Hitting Apple TV+ this week is Prime Target, starring Leo Woodall and Quintessa Swindell. “Prime Target” will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on January 22, 2025, with the first two episodes, followed by one episode weekly, every Wednesday through March 5, 2025.
Starring SAG Award winner Leo Woodall (“The White Lotus,” “One Day,” upcoming “Bridget Jones” film) and Quintessa Swindell (“Black Adam,” “In Treatment”), the new drama features a brilliant young math postgraduate, Edward Brooks (played by Woodall), who is on the verge of a major breakthrough. If he succeeds in finding a pattern in prime numbers, he will hold the key to every computer in the world. Soon, he begins to realize an unseen enemy is trying to destroy his idea before it’s even born, which throws him into the orbit of Taylah Sanders, a female NSA agent (played by Swindell) who’s been tasked with watching and reporting on mathematicians’ behavior. Together, they start to unravel the troubling conspiracy Edward is at the heart of.
Created by award-winning writer Steve Thompson, who also serves as executive producer, “Prime Target” is produced for Apple TV+ by New Regency with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions. The cast also includes Stephen Rea, David Morrissey, Martha Plimpton, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Jason Flemyng, Harry Lloyd, Ali Suliman, Fra Fee and Joseph Mydell.
Writer and director Brady Hood (Great Expectations) directed all eight episodes and also serves as executive producer. Ridley Scott is EPing alongside Marina Brackenbury, David W. Zucker, Ed Rubin, Beth Pattinson, Emma Broughton, Yariv Milchan, Arnon Milchan and Michael Schaefer. Series producer is Laura Hastings-Smith, who also serves as executive producer.
