Trailer Watch: Florence Pugh Investigates a Thriller in “The Surprise”

From Nineteen Fifties American housewife to 1860s English nurse, Florence Pugh is following up her function in Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Fear Darling” by going even additional again in time in “The Surprise,” a drama set 13 years after the Nice Famine. A trailer for the Netflix pic introduces us to Lib (Pugh), who’s summoned to the Irish Midlands underneath unusual circumstances. The healthcare employee been despatched to a religious neighborhood to conduct a weeks-long examination over Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy), an 11-year-old lady who claims to not have eaten for 4 months. “It’s not your job to query us,” she’s informed. “You’re right here solely to observe.”

Described as every thing from “an actress” to “chosen,” Anna appears to confound Lib. It’s not lengthy earlier than Lib is doing what she’s been warned towards — questioning the neighborhood. “I’m right here to seek out out the reality,” she says.

“The Surprise” relies on Emma Donoghue’s e-book of the identical title. The “Room” novelist and screenwriter penned the script for “The Surprise” alongside Sebastián Lelio, the movie’s director, and Alice Birch, the screenwriter behind Pugh’s breakout pic, “Woman Macbeth.”

Pugh acquired an Oscar nod for “Little Ladies.” “Black Widow,” “Midsommar,” and “Combating with My Household” are amongst her different credit.

“The Surprise” hits choose theaters November 2 and launches on Netflix November 16. It made its world premiere at Telluride in September.