Uma Thurman will fall in love (in fiction) with an actress from ‘The Bridgertons’ in her next film

In the footsteps of Cardigan of Hitchcockthe intriguing gothic drama from 1940 and one of the great classics of the master of suspense. His story will resonate in some way in the plot of the new film in which he will star. Uma Thurman, The Housekkeperin which he will share a cast with Anthony Hopkins and Phoebe Dynevorthe actress who played Daphne Basset in the first and second seasons of The Bridgertons.

Behind the cameras will be Richard Eyrea director who deserves maximum credibility in terms of dramas, and even more so if they are starring women, since his are titles like Iris (2001) with Kate Winslet and Judi Dench (although the Oscar went to Jim Broadbent for best supporting actor, Dench was nominated for leading actress and Winslet for supporting actress), and Diary of a scandal (2006) with Cate Blanchett and again Judi Dench (and with Dench nominated for an Oscar for best actress and Blanchett in the supporting actress category).

So talent meeting for a scripted story Rose Tremainadapting a short story written by herself. And, returning to the shadow of Hitchcock, he will tell us a fiction about how he could have been inspired Daphne Du Maurier to write his famous novel which would later give rise to the even more famous film. So Uma Thurman would play Danni, the housekeeper of Manderville Hall, the luxurious mansion owned by Lord DeWithers (Hopkins), and falling madly in love with a young writerthe Daphne Du Maurier that Dynevor would play.

“Rose Tremain’s story grapples with love, fear, fiction, desire, ambition, death and legacy, perhaps epic, while offering us the delicacy of more complex and nuanced characters”the same director has commented in statements to Variety to present the casting, and also considering that “The cast and I hold in the palm of our hands a history as rich and turbulent as the landscape it inhabits, with Manderville Hall holding secrets and emotional intrigue within its historic walls”.

To finish off, let us remember that the unforgettable protagonist of Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction of Tarantinohas a couple of projects already in post-production such as the sequel to The old guard for Netflix who stars again Charlize Theron; while Phoebe Dynevor, who left The Bridgertons After the second season, he has four films on the horizon, including famous next to Zac Efron or possibly be the protagonist of Beneath the Stormthe new of Tommy Wirkola (of Nazi zombies either seven sisters).

Dreaming of Manderley

Or that, returning to the aforementioned Cardigan by Hitchcock, Oscar for best film and whose popularity was such that in Spain it even gave its name to a piece of clothing (a feminine cardigan similar to the one worn by its protagonist, Joan Jontaine), has, on the other hand, one of those few cases in which the film has always been unanimously considered far superior to the original literary source it adaptedand that the remake what he did Ben Wheatley In 2020 it didn’t even reach the soles of his shoes.

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In the original from the 1940s, and which began with a voice-over narrating that “last night I dreamed that I was returning to Manderley”, an emblematic phrase of the film, Joan Fontaine She played the second wife of the handsome English aristocrat Maxim De Winter (Laurence Olivier), and discovering that the memory of his previous wife, Rebeca, is still very present, even too much on the part of the disturbing, austere and obsessed housekeeper that he so iconically captured on screen Judith Anderson. The character that, in a way, Uma Thurman would play in The Housekeeper.

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