Meet Shadow and Bone's Alina and Mal, Jessie Mei Li and Archie Renaux!

We speak to the two young leads of Netflix’s adaptation of Shadow and Bone, Jessie Mei Li and Archie Renaux, about being in this new fantasy YA series, about playing fan favorites Alina and Mal, and about their inspirations.

Based on Leigh Bardugo’s worldwide bestselling Grishaverse novels, Shadow and Bone finds us in a war-torn world where lowly soldier and orphan Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) has just unleashed an extraordinary power that could be the key to setting her country free.

With the monstrous threat of the Shadow Fold looming, Alina is torn from everything she knows to train as part of an elite army of magical soldiers known as Grisha. But as she struggles to hone her power, she finds that allies and enemies can be one and the same and that nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. There are dangerous forces at play, including a crew of charismatic criminals, and it will take more than magic to survive.

The series also stars Ben Barnes, Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter, Amita Suman, Kit Young, and Zoë Wanamaker.

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Meet Shadow and Bone’s Alina and Mal, Jessie Mei Li and Archie Renaux!

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