Actors Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Ben Whishaw have joined Frances McDormand in the upcoming feature adaptation of author Miriam Toews’ bestselling novel “Women Talking”.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter , Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, August Winter, Liv McNeil and Kate Hallett have also boarded the cast of the film.
“Women Talking”, which was published in 2018, follows a group of women in an isolated Mennonite religious colony in Bolivia as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.
Oscar nominee Sarah Polley is attached to write and direct the project.
The film hails from MGM’s Orion Pictures and Plan B Entertainment.
McDormand, who won the best actress Academy Award, her third, for “Nomadland” earlier this year, will also back the “Women Talking” via her Hear/Say Productions.
