Juliet Stevenson Joins Helen Mirren In Anton Corbijn’s Patricia Highsmith Thriller ‘Switzerland’

Melanie Goodfellow and Andreas Wiseman

30 January 2025 at 6:17 am·2-min read

EXCLUSIVE: Juliet Stevenson has boarded Anton Corbijn’s thriller Switzerland starring Helen Mirren as crime novelist Patricia Highsmith as shooting gets underway in Rome, sources close to the production have confirmed.

She joins Mirren, Olivia Cooke (House of the Dragon), who was also confirmed this week, as well as previously attached Alden Ehrenreich (Oppenheimer).

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Truly Madly Deeply star Stevenson was seen most recently in the series Mozart: Rise of Genius and Professor T. Details of her role have not been revealed. It is the first time she will appear with Mirren on the big screen.

The movie has been adapted by Australian writer Joanna Murray-Smith from her play of the same name, revolving around Patricia Highsmith’s encounter with an ambitious young literary agent, played by Ehrenreich (Oppenheimer).

It is 1995, as Highsmith lives out her final days in seclusion in the Swiss Alps with only her cats for company.

When a pushy young man turns up at her residence, sent by her New York publisher to persuade her to write a final book in her best-selling Tom Ripley series, it becomes clear he is on a more sinister mission.

After Rome, the production travels to northern Italy, Switzerland and London.

Producers are Gabrielle Tana Troy Lum and Andrew Mason at Brouhaha Entertainment; Jim Robison and Kurt Martin for Australia’s Lunar Pictures; Karl Spoerri at Switzerland’s Zurich Avenue; Andrea Occhipinti for Italy’s Lucky Red; and Pete Shilaimon and Mickey Liddell for L.A.-based LD Entertainment. Carolyn Marks Blackwood is also producing.

Head Gear and BondIt Media Capital are financing, with Phil Hunt executive producing for Head Gear and Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor executive producing for BondIt Media Capital.

FilmNation Entertainment is handling international sales.

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