Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) and Emily Mortimer (The Newsroom) have been cast in Netflix’s upcoming romantic comedy movie Ladies First.
Thea Sharrock (the filmmaker behind Me Before You, The One and Only Ivan, Wicked Little Letters, and The Beautiful Game) is directing Ladies First from a script penned by Katie Silberman (Booksmart), Natalie Krinsky (The Broken Hearts Gallery), and Cinco Paul (Schmigadoon!).
Who else is in Ladies First cast?
Grant and Mortimer will be joining previously announced cast members Sacha Baron Cohen (The Dictator) and Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) in the rom-com pic.
Game of Thrones and Dracula Untold actor Charles Dance has also joined the cast of Ladies First, alongside Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve, Enola Holmes), Tom Davis (Wonka, King Gary), and Weruche Opia (Genius: MLK/X, I May Destroy You).
The upcoming feature will center around a remorseless womanizer (set to be played by Cohen), who will soon find himself living in a female-dominated parallel world. As the stereotypical gender roles have been reversed, his situation will turn for the worse in the face of a strong female counterpart (Pike), who will complicate things further.
The film’s producers include Liza Chasin for 3dot alongside Eleonore Dailly, Edouard de Lachomette, and Four By Two Films.
Grant is best known for his performances in Withnail and I, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Warlock, L.A. Story, Jack and Sarah, and Loki. Mortimer, meanwhile, is known for Lovely and Amazing, The Pink Panther, Lars and the Real Girl, Shutter Island, Hugo, Mary Poppins Returns, Relic, and Paddington in Peru.
Ladies First is an adaptation of Éléonore Pourriat’s 2018 French-language rom-com Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile (translated as I Am Not an Easy Man). The film, which debuted on Netflix in 2018, starred Vincent Elbaz and Marie-Sophie Ferdane.
Netflix has yet to announce the release date for Ladies First.
(Source: The Hollywood Reporter)
