Sony Pictures has dropped the official trailer for Prima Facie starring Wicked Oscar-nominated actress Cynthia Erivo as hotshot young barrister Tessa whose personal life and career unravel after she is brutally sexually assaulted by a person in her law world circle.
The process of seeking justice is given extra weight by the fact that she has a track record in defending men charged with sexual assault. What she lives through as the accuser shakes her belief in the judicial system that was once the core of her identity.
The feature, directed by Susanna White (The Buccaneer, Andor), has just world premiered at TIFF and is set for a theatrical in the UK and Ireland on November 13. U.S. Distribution has yet to be announced, with UTA Independent Film Group and CAA Media Finance co-repping sales.
The feature is adapted from Suzie Miller‘s one-woman play Prima Facie which took the theater world by storm with Jodie Comer in the lead role. The production won Olivier Awards for the West End production including Best Actress for Comer, who then won a Tony Award for her performance on Broadway.
“I read the script, and then fell in love with the script because I loved the grey area that it dealt with,” Erivo told the Deadline Studio at TIFF.
“That Tessa wasn’t a straightforward human being. That she was complex in many, many different ways, and that she had a hand in the law. That she was having to deal with, and that that law then was dealt upon her. The navigation of all that for me was a really interesting thing to have to play and to have to deal with, and I saw it as a challenge and thought, well, I think this might be a good challenge to face.”
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