This is why Netflix s new film The Dig is facing a backlash
The film stars Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes
Netflix s latest original film
The Dig landed on the streamer just a few days ago (29 January) but already the long-awaited movie is facing backlash for the decision to cast 35-year-old Carey Mulligan as a 56-year-old woman.
The Dig, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by John Preston, follows the a wealthy widow named Edith Pretty (Mulligan) who hires an amateur archeologist named Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes), to excavate the burial mounds on her East Anglian estate. The film is a retelling of the most famous archaeological dig in Britain of modern times: the 1939 discovery of an Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo, known as Britain s Tutankhamun .