Girl Catherine, who prefers to referred to as Birdy (Bella Ramsey), doesn’t need to get married. Are you able to blame her? She’s solely in her teenagers and her father (Andrew Scott) simply needs her to get hitched so he can get out of monetary bother. “Would I select to die slightly than be pressured to marry?” Birdy muses in a brand new trailer for “Catherine Known as Birdy,” Lena Dunham’s Toronto-bound adaptation of Karen Cushman’s 1994 historic YA novel. “I don’t assume both choice interesting. Or honest.”
Fortunately, Birdy informs us, she is “very crafty — most women are, although we’re not given due credit score for it.” Posing as a commoner, she convinces certainly one of her potential suitors that “Girl Catherine” is a “vile creature” with a 3rd ear. The younger noblewoman can be expert within the arts of swordplay and fisticuffs, so it’s clear she’s going to do all the pieces in her energy to foil her father’s plans.
Birdy is a badass younger girl — however that always makes life in 1290 England further tough. “I cheer for you, Birdy,” her mom (Billie Piper) tells her. “I worry for you.”
A ardour undertaking for writer-director-producer Dunham, the movie adaptation of “Catherine Known as Birdy” has been within the works for years. “I needed to spotlight this lady who was dwelling within the flawed time,” Dunham has mentioned of the undertaking. “If she was dwelling in 2022, she could be a reasonably traditional tomboy or in a position to discover the gender binary, she’d be capable to play all of the sports activities she needed,” the “Ladies” star-creator mentioned. “However there are nonetheless as we all know, enormous challenges to being a lady these days, and a teenage lady.”
Sophie Okonedo, Isis Hainsworth, Lesley Sharp, and Dunham are additionally amongst “Catherine Known as Birdy’s” solid.
Dunham’s cringe comedy “Sharp Stick” is now in theaters and can be out there on VOD August 16. She made her function directorial debut with 2009’s “Inventive Nonfiction” and adopted it up with 2010’s “Tiny Furnishings.” She acquired eight Emmy nominations for her work on “Ladies.” Since then, her credit have included “Tenting,” “Era,” and “Business.”
“Catherine Known as Birdy” will make its world premiere as a Particular Presentation at TIFF, which runs September 8-18. The movie will open in choose theaters September 23 and launch on Prime Video October 7.
Supply: Women And Hollywood
