EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, Ex Machina, Tomb Raider) is set to star opposite Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Enigma Variations, Netflix‘s limited series based on Call Me By Your Name author André Aciman’s bestselling novel.
Written by Amanda Kate Shuman and to be directed by Oliver Hermanus, Enigma Variations tells the story of Paul (Taylor-Johnson), a man remade by the lovers who ignite and undo him across ten transformative years. It’s an intimate yet sweeping portrait of masculinity, sexuality, and modern love—and in a world of endless choices, it asks the question: will we know when we’ve found the one?Vikander will play one of Paul’s love interests, Claire, to whom he gets married in the book as he alternates between male and female partners.
Shuman, who serves as showrunner, executive produces alongside Hermanus as well as Michael Ellenberg, Christina Malach and Lindsey Springer for Media Res, Aciman and Monica Levinson. Media Res is the studio.
Vikander, Oscar winner for The Danish Girl, was recently seen in The Wizard of the Kremlin opposite Jude Law, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and making her UK theater debut in The Lady From the Sea opposite Andrew Lincoln.
This year, she has sci-fi thriller Hope from director Na Hong-jin, visual artist Rachel Rose’s debut feature The Last Day, which premiered at Tribeca, and Andrea Pallaoro’s The Echo Chamber, from an unfinished script by Bernardo Bertolucci. She is in production on The Worst, from playwright-director Simon Woods, opposite Jamie Dornan and Keira Knighley. Vikander is repped by UTA and Actors In Scandinavia.
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