Emilia Clarke To Star As Oscar Wilde’s Spouse Constance Lloyd In ‘An Perfect Spouse’ – Deadline

Emilia Clarke is about to steer An Perfect Spouse, the brand new movie from Good Luck to You, Leo Grande director Sophie Hyde the place she is going to play the Irish youngsters’s writer and Oscar Wilde’s spouse, Constance Lloyd. 

We hear the movie charts the story of Oscar Wilde’s marriage to Lloyd, an writer and activist, and the sexual awakening she skilled after she realized that Wilde was gay.

Embankment movies is dealing with the pic, which will probably be offered to patrons at AFM this week. The UK manufacturing and gross sales firm has been speaking to patrons concerning the mission for a couple of months and Clarke turned hooked up in current weeks. 

Lloyd died in 1898 on the age of 40 whereas dwelling in exile in Genoa, Italy, together with her two sons. They’d left London and adjusted their surname to Holland to distance themselves from the scandal of Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment for gay acts in 1895. Throughout her life, Lloyd printed two books of kids’s literature and contributed to newspapers and journals. She was additionally a campaigner within the progressive gown reform motion. 

The movie will mark Clarke’s first large display credit score because the 2019 vacation romcom Final Christmas directed by Paul Feig. The movie starred Clarke alongside Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, and Emma Thompson, who additionally co-scripted the flick. 

Embankment at the moment has Frances O’Connor’s Emily, starring Emma Mackey, in cinemas. Subsequent month sees the worldwide rollout of Florian Zeller’s The Son, starring Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, and Anthony Hopkins.

Selection was first to report on An Perfect Spouse.