Uma Thurman and Phoebe Dynevor to play forbidden lovers in The Housekeeper
Uma Thurman and Phoebe Dynevor have been cast as “forbidden lovers” in the upcoming period drama The Housekeeper. Based on Rose Tremain’s short story The American, the film will fictionalise the inspiration behind Daphne Du Maurier’s classic 1938 gothic novel Rebecca. Directed by Richard Eyre, the story follows Danni (Thurman), a housekeeper at the historic Manderville Hall in Cornwall, England, run by the wealthy and widowed Lord DeWithers (Anthony Hopkins). As per Variety, she “falls prey to the glance” of Du Maurier, a young and beautiful novelist. In Tremain’s story, the housekeeper is…
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