Stephen Mangan recreates Demi Moore's famous nude, pregnant Vanity Fair front cover image for Sky Arts' Birthday

Stephen Mangan recreates Demi Moore's famous nude, pregnant Vanity Fair front cover image for Sky Arts' Birthday

Stephen Mangan has been photographed as you've never seen him before: naked and pregnant, in the style of the famous Demi Moore Vanity Fair front cover, for Sky Arts' new, one-off drama Birthday which airs on the channel next week.

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In Birthday, Ed (Stephen Mangan) is up the duff, on an NHS maternity ward, already induced, waiting for a caesarean and the imminent birth of his daughter. With his high-flying executive wife at his side (Anna Maxwell Martin, Death Comes to Pemberley) doing her best to remain sympathetic and patient, we follow Ed through the agony, the tears, the humiliation, the anxiety and the ecstasy of labour. 

Birthday was written by Joe Penhall (Sunny Afternoon) – adapted from his sell-out 2012 Royal Court play – and directed by the award-winning Roger Michell (Notting Hill).

In Penhall’s hilarious, thoughtful and deeply moving script, viewers are invited on an exceptional journey, through existential questions, gross-out humour and high-drama into the very heart of modern relationships.

Reuniting a number of the stars of the play, Louise Brealey (Sherlock) reprises her role as registrar, with Llewella Gideon (Nighty Night) as the exasperatingly unhelpful nurse, Joyce.

Birthday airs on Sky Arts on Tuesday 9th June at 9pm.

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