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Olivia Colman adds royal touch with ‘The Favourite’

October 20, 2018



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LONDON —

The London Film Festival got its one of its starriest red carpets on Thursday when actresses Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman premiered “The Favourite,” a costume piece with a difference being billed as an Oscar contender.

With plenty of laugh out loud moments, the movie sees Colman portray Britain’s 18th-century Queen Anne as an insecure, frail, tempestuous, childish royal who is easily influenced by her friend and confidante Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough.

However Sarah, played by Weisz, soon finds herself vying for the queen’s attention as well as affection when maid Abigail, portrayed by Stone, arrives.

— Reuters

“All three of us ... play parts that were filthy and sexy and emotional and sad ... which is normal, not just an attempt to be gorgeous all the time and a little bit sort of prettily flawed,” Colman said at the BFI London Film Festival.

The actresses, who have praised by critics, share the spotlight as three central characters, which Weisz described as “very textured and layered and complicated.”

While set in the 18th century, the film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, known for “The Lobster” and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”, has contemporary touches such as in the language used. — Reuters


October 20, 2018
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