Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, and Ben Whishaw Join Frances McDormand in Adapted Drama WOMEN TALKING
Claire Foy (The Crown), Rooney Mara (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), Jessie Buckley (Fargo), Ben Whishaw (Fargo), Judith Ivey (The Devil’s Advocate), Sheila McCarthy (Die Hard 2), and Michelle McLeod (Don’t Talk to Irene) have joined the cast of the drama feature Women Talking. The film is an adaptation of Miriam Toews’ bestselling novel.
They join previously cast Oscar-winning actress Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Nomadland), as well as August Winter, Liv McNeil, and Kate Hallett in their feature film debuts. The film is being directed and adapted by Sarah Polley (Stories We Tell, Away From Her).
“Women Talking follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.” Published in 2018, the novel was named a Best Book of the Year By The New York Times Book Review, NPR.Org, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Slate, Publishers Weekly and Time, among many others.
This sounds like a powerful story with an excellent cast. I can’t wait to check it out.
via: Deadline