She once appeared in a radio adaptation of The Exorcist, as the head-turning Regan MacNeil. Does Wilson believe in ghosts? “Yeah.” Does she believe in demonic possession? “Yeah, don’t you?” Wilson plays an internationally famous cellist whose life takes a strange turn after her mother is possessed by a malevolent spirit. Requiem (for which she bleached her hair) is a subtle if, at times, gory chiller that occupies similarly dark territory. “I wasn’t very worldly about how to get into these things.” She played a memorable minor role in Richard Curtis’s 2013 film About Time, but by then she had already had her first major TV lead, in ITV’s 2012 period drama-cum-psychological horror The Making of a Lady. “I knew that Emma Thompson had gone to university,” she says. But, if you took it away, I reckon there’d be a huge sigh of relief.” “It propagates privilege… we’re hostage to this fairytale that we’ve become enamoured by, in a sort of Stockholm syndrome way. Although she had become very fond of her royal counterpart, she says, playing her had crystallised some of her latent feelings about the monarchy. When Wilson was offered the chance to reprise the role last year for the BBC’s television adaptation, she turned it down. “When she got pregnant,” Wilson adds, “I got 50 text messages, saying, ‘Oh my God, have you seen? Congratulations!’.” “She doesn’t speak very much so there was this explosion of enthusiasm – everyone wants to know what she has to say.” There were interviews with Vogue and Vanity Fair, and numerous journalists wanting to take her out to tea. “It was amazing there was a sense that I was an effigy of her or something, a representative,” says Wilson. Yet the 33-year-old actress played Kate Middleton for two years in Mike Bartlett’s Olivier-winning King Charles III, in the West End and on Broadway – and, as far as America was concerned, that was close enough. It is in production in Los Angeles.The first thing I notice when I meet Lydia Wilson is that, with her dyed white-blonde hair and black glasses, she looks nothing like the Duchess of Cambridge. From director Vincent Masciale and writer Luke Barnett (Funny or Die), the film is about people that can be hired to realize your darkest horrors. nabbed alums from Will & Grace, Lost, and Mad Men in Leslie Jordan, Eric Lange, and Mark Moses, respectively. Zoe Kazan ( Olive Kitteridge) was already in the cast. Bryan Bertino wrote and will direct the script about a mother and her daughter who are trapped and tortured by a cruel monster. Horror film There Are Monsters added a trio to its cast: Scott Speedman ( Underworld), Aaron Douglas ( Battlestar Galactica), and Ella Ballentine ( The Captive).Directed and written by Jake Goldberger, Holding Patterns is filming in Mobile, Ala. The coming-of-age dramatic comedy is centered around an apathetic man in his 20s still living at home when his stepfather develops feeling for a young, committed woman. Freddie Highmore ( Bates Motel), Haley Joel Osment, and Odeya Rush were all added to Holding Patterns.Filming begins in Atlanta and Miami next month. Rhames plays an ex-teammate of Bradshaw, who’s playing himself. The comedy, directed by Lawrence Sher, tracks two brothers who vow to find their father, who was once believed to be dead. Ving Rhames is the latest to be added to Bastards, already starring Ed Helms, Owen Wilson, J.K.Production begins this week in Napa, Calif. The drama follows a widow trying to save her ranch by taming wild horses that wander onto her property, with the help of prisoners. The actress has signed on to play the primary antagonist in Alex Ranarivelo drama Running Wild. Beyond, helmed by series newcomer Justin Lin, is slated for a Jrelease. Idris Elba joined the cast as the threequel’s villain, but details about his or Wilson’s role have yet to be released. The new Star Trek film will keep core players Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, and Simon Pegg. Lydia Wilson, who played Domnhall Gleeson’s sister in the time-travel rom-com About Time, has joined the cast of Star Trek Beyond.
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