Florence Pugh Lands Lead Role In ‘The Wonder’ Movie Adaptation
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Florence Pugh is starring in the movie version of Emma Donoghue’s “The Wonder”
The actress is portraying a nurse tasked to observe a bizarre case involving an 11-year-old girl in a tiny village
Pugh is also preparing for the release of her other project with Marvel, “Black Widow,” this July
Florence Pugh has just landed another lead role in a new big screen project, making her one of the most in-demand actresses at the moment.
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news Wednesday that Pugh, 25, has been chosen to star in the movie adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s “The Wonder,” a psychological thriller set in the author’s homeland, Ireland.
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The UK-Ireland co-production has an eye-catching longline. Taking place in the Irish midlands in 1859, the story follows an English nurse residing in Ireland (Pugh), who is summoned to an isolated village to observe an unusual patient an eleven-year-old girl who has survived without food for months. The strange event, thought to be an unprecedented medical anomaly, causes a local sensation, bringing curious tourists to the region as well as catching the interest of a journalist. A reviewer of the novel compared it to Donoghue’s Booker-shortlisted
Room, calling it a “domestic psychodrama that draws its power from quotidian detail as well as gothic horror, as a woman and a child at close quarters must draw on inner resources to survive an impossible situation.”