Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor are becoming a member of director Vicky Wight’s subsequent movie.
Deadline stories that the Happiness for Novices author/director is engaged on her subsequent movie, The Physique Is Water, and has solid Whitlock and Ellis-Taylor alongside Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Stephen Rea, Aidan Quinn, Eva Birthistle, Allen Leech, Fionnula Flanagan, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Bronagh Gallagher.
What to learn about ‘The Physique of Water’ and its plot
The movie is described as “a cross-cultural story about loss, therapeutic, and the strangers who refuse to allow you to disappear.” Set in West Cork, Eire, the movie “follows a grieving man who vanishes to a distant Irish village, solely to seek out that disappearing is the one factor the city–and Lou, an eccentric younger lady with a curious canine–received’t let him do.”
Wight will produce with Geoff Linville, Sydney Augusta Huynh and Pink Ted Media’s John Norton. Stephen Corridor, Darkish Day Footage’ Mike Jones and Coert Voorhees govt produce.
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Vicky Wright have labored collectively earlier than
Wight has labored with Ellis-Taylor earlier than within the 2013 drama The Volunteer, through which Ellis-Taylor starred with Ebon Moss-Bachrach. In the same vein to The Physique is Water concerning an individual looking for themselves once more, Ellis-Taylor’s function in The Volunteer is as a girl who leaves a job that pays her effectively, however kills her spirit.
After spending time not caring about life, she decides to clock again into the world by volunteering at a soup kitchen. In actual fact, discovering your self is a throughline in lots of Wight’s initiatives; Happiness is for Novices additionally follows a girl, performed by Ellie Kemper, who will get signed up for a wilderness course by her brother as a way to rediscover herself after a divorce.