With shooting now underway in the south of France on dark comedy “The Worst,” the production has added a major cohort of names to its already buzzy cast.
Sam Claflin (“F.A.S.T.,” “Daisy Jones and the Six”), Tom Hollander (“Gosford Park,” “The Night Manager”), Anthony Boyle (“I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning,” “The Altruists”), Josh Finan (“Say Nothing,” “Waiting for the Out”), Anna Maxwell Martin (“Star City,” “Until I Kill You”), Dustin Demri-Burns (“The Magic Faraway Tree,” “Slow Horses”) and Sian Clifford (“Fleabag,” “The Ballad of Wallis Island”) have joined the film, which was first announced by Variety earlier this year.
Zackary Momoh (“Doctor Sleep,” “Parish”) and Eka Chavleishvili (“Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry”) round out the ensemble.
The new additions join the previously announced Keira Knightley (“The Imitation Game, Pride & Prejudice”), Alicia Vikander (“Firebrand,” “The Danish Girl”) and Erin Kellyman (“Eleanor the Great,” “28 Years Later”). Meanwhile, Boyle replaces fellow Belfast-born actor Jamie Dornan, who was originally cast.
Marking the feature directorial debut of Simon Woods, “The Worst” — which was launched at the European Film Market by Protagonist Pictures, Logical Pictures Group and UTA Independent Film Group — is described as a “wickedly entertaining class satire” that “skewers privilege, power and performative morality, turning an elegant couples’ getaway into a hilariously disastrous night to remember.”
