New series Carice van Houten and Halina Reijn starts with over 1 million viewers | NOW

Red Light, the new series by Carice van Houten and Halina Reijn, started on NPO 1 on Friday evening with 1.18 million viewers. The Voice of Holland was watched by 1.98 million viewers.

Red Light is in eighth place of the Viewing Rating Top 25. The Voice of Holland in second place, behind the eight o’clock news (2.6 million viewers). Cops Maastricht finishes the Top 3 with over 1.9 million viewers.

For seven years Van Houten en Reijn, who themselves interpret a sex worker and an opera singer Red Light, research for the series.

Among other things, they received help from the uncle van Reijn, who is the national human trafficking officer of the Public Prosecution Service.

‘We are not as feminist as you’

“Carice has spoken to a lot of women for her role, and many said: we are just as feminist as you are, you are not going to portray me as a victim? We tried to capture that in the characters. We are not trying to give answers either. , but to really show how complex that world is “, Reijn said about this earlier in a interview on NU.nl.