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Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley traces up subsequent main position

Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley has lined up her subsequent main venture as it has been confirmed she’s set to star in Jane Anderson’s upcoming movie Women within the Castle.

Based on Jessica Shattuck’s 2017 novel of the identical title, the movie is ready in Germany on the finish of World War 2, and follows three girls who’re sure collectively by their pasts. As the ladies cling to one another for a future, they need to additionally be taught to reside with the realities of liberation from the Nazis and face the implications of previous choices that they can’t undo.

Alongside Daisy Ridley, the movie will even star Fleabag‘s Kristin Scott Thomas and My Little Sister actress Nina Hoss, Variety experiences.

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Anderson has beforehand tailored Meg Wolitzer’s The Wife and received two Emmys for her work on the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge.

“One of Jane’s great talents is to reveal the inner emotional lives of women and in gifting those revelations to actresses, allowing them to deliver award-winning, timelessly memorable performances,” producer Rosalie Swedlin stated in a press release.

“And in Kristin, Daisy and Nina we have the cast to do exactly that.”

News of Daisy’s newest venture comes after the star opened up about struggling to search out work following the premiere of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker on the finish of final 12 months.

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“Obviously now it is very nice to be working, however not having a lot [at the time] I really feel like I processed the final 5 years. To be pressured to decelerate, it was good mentally for me as a result of [Star Wars was] a giant factor in my life,” she mirrored.

“At the beginning of the year nothing was coming through. I was like, ‘Aww! No one wants to employ me’. I had that moment of ‘Oh my god!’ and then just thought, ‘Everything in its right time.'”

Daisy is subsequent set to star alongside Tom Holland in Chaos Walking, and also will characteristic on a lot of upcoming tasks, together with Netflix superhero comedy Super-Normal and Bad Robot movies Kolma, A Woman of No Importance and Piece of Mind.

Women within the Castle is scheduled to start manufacturing in early 2021.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is on the market on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K now, in addition to on Disney+, Sky Cinema Premiere and NOW TV.