Cast roundup: Lena Headey, Carice van Houten, and Rose Leslie land new screen roles
By Dan Selcke
The actresses on Game of Thrones are talented, versatile, and have a great platform to have their work seen—no wonder they’re in demand. Check out what new projects three of the show’s big guns are taking on.
First up, Lena Headey (Cersei) will put her Emmy-nominated skills to good use as the headlining performer in The Woman in the Woods, a thriller from writer/director Russell Friedenberg. The plot revolves around a Headey’s character taking a camping trip with her husband and daughter. The parents intend to use the trip as an opportunity to tell their daughter that they’re getting a divorce, which sounds like a terrible idea right off the bat.
Things gets worse when they encounter an evil presence in the woods that influences the daughter, who’s soon suspected of being responsible for a string of missing persons cases. This movie certainly seems in line with Headey’s fondness for “dark, weird stuff.”
Next up, Carice van Houten (Melisandre) is joining the Dutch production The Parts You Lose, about a young hearing-impaired boy who forms a friendship with a potentially dangerous fugitive in his small North Dakota town. Her costar will be Aaron Paul, who you might know as Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad. Van Houten certainly knows him that way, and adopted the character’s signature phraseology when tweeting about her casting.
She has fun, this one.
Finally, Rose Leslie (Ygritte) will join Idris Elba for a one-night, three-hour special edition of the cult hit Luther—the special air on BBC America on December 17 at 9:00 PM. Leslie will play Emma Lane, a sergeant who drags troubled detective John Luther (Elba) out of his self-imposed exile so he track a vicious serial killer. If that doesn’t sound appealing, you can always wait for Fox’s American remake of the show, but then you wouldn’t get to see Leslie on your TV again, and that would be sad.
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H/T Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Anibundel: Pop Culturess