Richard E Grant, Emily Mortimer, Charles Dance, and more join Netflix show ‘Ladies First’
Netflix have announced the new cast members joining their upcoming film Ladies First, with Richard E Grant, Emily Mortimer and Charles Dance acting alongside Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike, who will star in the project.
Thea Sharrock, who is known for the 2016 romantic drama Me Before You and The Beautiful Game, will direct the film, with a screenplay written by Katie Silberman, Cinco Paul and Natalie Krinsky.
The story is inspired by Eleonore Pourriat’s Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile, about a womaniser who is given a taste of his own medicine when he finds himself in an alternate reality where women hold all the power, which takes a turn when he meets a woman similar to himself. The original film translates to I Am Not An Easy Man, which saw Vincent Elbaz and Marie-Sophie Ferdane in the lead roles and was also released by Netflix in 2018.
The project is produced under Liza Chasin’s production company 3dot, along with Eleonore Dailly and Edouard de Lachomette, as part of an ongoing collaboration between Chasin and Netflix, in which she also produced Lonely Planet starring Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth and the upcoming film The Life List.
It is unknown which role Richard Grant will play, but he is famous for his performances in Withnail and I, Gosford Park and Can You Ever Forgive Me, for which he was nominated for an Oscar. Mortimer recently starred in the beloved British Paddington franchise, as well as Noah Baumbach’s upcoming feature with George Clooney and Adam Sandler. Dance is most well-known for his role as Tywin Lannister in the hit HBO series Game of Thrones, and has since starred in The Kings Man, Alien 3 and The Imitation Game.
The casting of Sacha Baron Cohen is somewhat controversial after recent sexual misconduct allegations from other actors in the industry, with Rebel Wilson detailing an incident that occurred between her and the actor in a recent interview. However, Cohen’s team released a statement saying, “While we appreciate the importance of speaking out, these demonstrably false claims are directly contradicted by extensive detailed evidence, including contemporaneous documents, film footage, and eyewitness accounts from those present before, during and after the production of The Brothers Grimsby.” Cohen’s team later managed to have the segment redacted from Wilson’s book that described the incident.
The film’s release date is currently unknown, but we can perhaps expect the project to go into production in 2025.