The “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and “Companion” star — heading to Cannes as part of Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme” — has been cast as the male lead alongside Lily James and Raffey Cassidy.
The film marks the directorial feature debut of Australian sibling filmmakers Spencer and Lloyd Harvey, and is described as a “gripping emotional thriller that confronts the most primal choices we make about love, ambition and building a family.” HanWay is handling international sales in Cannes, with UTA Independent Film Group selling for North America. The film starts principal photography this October in Australia and London
“Photo Booth” will see Friend star as Ben, James’ husband. Ben is a talented portrait artist living in his successful wife and famous father’s shadows who finds himself caught up in a messy but charged triangle between his wife, who is desperate for a child,…
