Toni Collette stars as powerful politician Margot Cleary in first look at thrilling adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s The Power-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro

Toni plays the powerful Margot Cleary (Picture: Prime Video)

Prime Video has revealed a first look at the highly-anticipated TV adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s The Power.

Released in 2016, the dystopian thriller imagines a world where teenage girls develop the power to electrocute people at will.

Little Miss Sunshine star Toni Collette plays the ambitious Margot Cleary, the mayor of Seattle and politician who has her power awakened by her teenage daughter Jocelyn.

But instead of the world turning into a feminist utopia, Margot has to navigate the cults that begin to emerge, armies and uprisings across the world as men turn fearful of women.

The series features a cast of characters from London to Seattle, Nigeria to Eastern Europe, as ‘the Power evolves from a tingle in teenagers’ collarbones to a complete reversal of the power balance of the world’.

Ahead of starring in the series, Toni revealed she hadn’t yet read the plot.

The thrilling series sees Naomi Alderman’s The Power come to life (Prime Video)

Halle Bush as Allie Montgomery (Picture: Prime Video)

‘I often don’t read the source material—I like to focus on the scripts that I’m given, because that’s what’s chosen to be focused on,’ she told Vanity Fair.

Leslie Mann had originally been cast in the lead role, but Toni confirmed to the publication that she was called in to replace the This Is 40 actress, and had to re-film the scenes.

‘I shot all of my scenes over a period of five weeks for the entire series,’ she added.

The dystopian thriller imagines a world where teenage girls develop the power to electrocute people (Picture: Prime Video)

Toheeb Jimoh stars as journalist Tunde Ojo (Picture: Prime Video)

The newfound power causes chaos within families and societies (Picture: Prime Video)

‘Playing a politician, those people talk a lot, and I had not much time [to prep]. So for a lot of it, I felt like I was hanging off the cliff face, wondering if I was going to survive. It’s been a wild adventure.’

Toni also admitted she would be keen for the power to exist in real life, saying: ‘Who wouldn’t want it!’

‘It’s almost like a metaphor for the power that is actually inherent in all of us. It’s just that we’re born into a world that doesn’t encourage it in women.

‘To be a part of telling a story that allows women to feel strong in that way is just beautiful.’

‘The Power evolves from a tingle in teenagers’ collarbones to a complete reversal of the power balance of the world’ (Picture: Prime Video)

The series will hit our screens in March (Picture: Prime Video)

Auli’i Cravalho – who voiced Disney’s Moana – plays Toni’s daughter Jos (Picture: Prime Video)

Joining Toni, John Leguizamo plays Rob Lopez, with Auli’i Cravalho – who voiced Disney’s Moana – playing their daughter Jos Cleary-Lopez.

Meanwhile, Toheeb Jimoh stars as Tunde Ojo, Josh Charles as Daniel Dandon, Eddie Marsan as Bernie Monke, Ria Zmitrowicz as Roxy Monke, Zrinka Cvitešić as Tatiana Moskalev, and Halle Bush as Allie Montgomery.

‘The world of The Power is our world, but for one twist of nature,’ the official plot of Alderman’s book reads, ‘Suddenly, and without warning, all teenage girls in the world develop the power to electrocute people at will. It’s hereditary, it’s inbuilt, and it can’t be taken away from them.

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‘Coming alive to the thrill of pure power: the ability to hurt or even kill by releasing electrical jolts from their fingertips, they rapidly learn they can awaken the Power in older women.

‘Soon enough nearly every woman in the world can do it. And then everything is different.’

The Power premieres on Prime Video in March.

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