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Cate Blanchett is set to star in fantasy drama Sweetsick, written and directed by Alice Birch, for Searchlight Pictures.
Production will begin this autumn in the UK and Greece.
Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Theo Barrowclough from House Productions are producing Sweetsick alongside Blanchett via her outfit Dirty Films. Film4 is executive producing and co-financing.
In the film, Blanchett plays a woman with a special gift for seeing what others most intimately need and often at great personal cost. Further casting is to be announced.
Sweetsick is Birch’s directorial debut. The UK filmmaker is already a prolific screenwriter with credits including Succession, Normal People, The Wonder and Lady Macbeth – the latter two for which she was Bafta-nominated.
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