Netflix’s ‘Ladies First’ Adds Richard E. Grant, Emily Mortimer, Charles Dance, Fiona Shaw & More

Anthony D'Alessandro
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Richard E. Grant, Emily Mortimer, Charles Dance, Fiona Shaw, Tom Davis and Weruche Opia are boarding the Netflix comedy Ladies First opposite Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike.

Thea Sharrock (The Beautiful Game, Wicked Little Letters, Me Before You) is directing from a screenplay by Katie Silberman (Set It Up, Booksmart), Cinco Paul (Schmigadoon!, Despicable Me) and Natalie Krinsky (The Broken Hearts Gallery, upcoming McQueen & Blow).

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Pic, which is based on Eléonore Pourriat’s Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile, follows a womanizer who gets a real wakeup call when he finds himself in a parallel world dominated by women – a fiery female counterpart makes things far more complicated.

Producers are Liza Chasin for 3dot Productions, Eleonore Dailly and Edouard de Lachomette.

The feature project falls under Chasin’s creative partnership with Netflix, which sees her produce feature films via her shingle, 3dot Productions. Recently released is Lonely Planet starring Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth, and coming up next is The Life List starring Sofia Carson.

Grant is the star of such movies as Saltburn, Gosford Park, The Player, Withnail & I, and his Oscar nominated supporting actor turn in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Mortimer can currently be seen starring in Dougal Wilson’s Paddington in Peru, the third installment of the hit franchise opposite Olivia Colman, Hugh Bonneville and Antoni Banderas. The threequel was released by Studio Canal in the UK on Nov. 8, and quickly broke box office records as the highest opening for a British film since 2021. Sony will release the film in the US on Jan. 17. Mortimer co-wrote Noah Baumbach Netflix’s upcoming Untitled Noah Baumbach Feature, which has completed principal photography and stars Mortimer, alongside George Clooney and Adam Sandler. Most recently, Mortimer starred in the Apple TV+ limited series The New Look.

Dance’s credits include HBO’s Game of Thrones as Tywin Lannister, Gosford Park, The Imitation Game, The First Omen, The King’s Man, and Alien 3.

Shaw starred as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter franchise, as Carolyn Martens in Killing Eve and in Lucasfilm/Disney+’s Andor as Maarva Andor.

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