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ScheduleAnglopheniaWonderstruck Anglophenia Florence Pugh Is Set to Star as a 19th Century Nurse in 'The Wonder'By Brigid Brown | April 29, 2021 (Photo: Getty Images) The Little Drummer Girl and the movies Lady Macbeth and Little Women. Again, she'll be doing some on-screen time-traveling, heading back to 1859 Ireland for the forthcoming feature Based on Emma Donoghue’s 2016 novel by the same name, the story is set in the Irish Midlands. Pugh will take on the role of an English nurse named Lib Wright, who is asked to go to a small village, where a girl has gone without eating for months...

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Photo by JEAN-BAPTISTE LACROIX/AFP via Getty Images According to Deadline, Oscar-nominated actress Florence Pugh has officially signed on for the leading role in the upcoming film adaptation of author Emma Donoghue’s psychological thriller novel titled The Wonder. Production is expected to begin later this year in August in Ireland. This marks the second time that one of Donoghue’s novels is getting a movie treatment, with the first one being Lenny Abrahamson’s acclaimed 2015 drama,  Room which earned the author an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Set in 1859, Irish Midl...