Emilia Clarke is about to steer An Ideal Wife, the brand new movie from Good Luck to You, Leo Grande director Sophie Hyde the place she is going to play the Irish youngsters’s writer and Oscar Wilde’s spouse, Constance Lloyd.
We hear the movie charts the story of Oscar Wilde’s marriage to Lloyd, an writer and activist, and the sexual awakening she skilled after she realized that Wilde was gay.
Embankment movies is dealing with the pic, which shall be offered to patrons at AFM this week. The UK manufacturing and gross sales firm has been speaking to patrons concerning the challenge for just a few months and Clarke turned hooked up in latest weeks.
Lloyd died in 1898 on the age of 40 whereas residing in exile in Genoa, Italy, along with her two sons. They had left London and altered their surname to Holland to distance themselves from the scandal of Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment for gay acts in 1895. During her life, Lloyd revealed two books of kids’s literature and contributed to newspapers and journals. She was additionally a campaigner within the progressive costume reform motion.
The movie will mark Clarke’s first huge display screen credit score because the 2019 vacation romcom Last Christmas directed by Paul Feig. The movie starred Clarke alongside Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, and Emma Thompson, who additionally co-scripted the flick.
Embankment presently has Frances O’Connor’s Emily, starring Emma Mackey, in cinemas. Next month sees the worldwide rollout of Florian Zeller’s The Son, starring Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, and Anthony Hopkins.
Variety was first to report on An Ideal Wife.
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