TOM HARDY’S “Taboo” has filled out its cast.

    The news comes as the eight-episode period drama for FX and BBC One begins filming this week in London. The project, which is based on an original story by Hardy and his father, Chips Hardy, hails from Steven Knight and will be directed by Kristoffer Nyholm. Hardy’s dad serves as the show’s consulting producer.

    Hardy, who will appear next opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s “The Revenant,” stars as James Keziah Delaney, who returns to 1814 London after 10 years in Africa to discover that he has been left a mysterious legacy by his father. Driven to wage war on those who have wronged him, Delaney finds himself in a face-off against the East India Company, while playing a dangerous game between Britain and America.

    Joining him is Michael Kelly (“House of Cards”), who plays American doctor Dumbarton, Jonathan Pryce (“Pirates of the Caribbean”) as Sir Stuart Strange, the head of the East India Company and Delaney’s nemesis, Oona Chaplin as Zilpha Geary, James’ half-sister, and David Hayman as Brace, Delaney’s trusted man-servant. (SD-Agencies)