![]() ![]() ![]() Her job over her eight-hour stints monitoring the child? To determine whether she is a saint or a fraud. Director Sebastián Lelio’s film opens in 1862-roughly a decade on from The Great Famine-as English nurse Lib (Pugh) arrives in the Irish midlands with a peculiar task: to watch an 11-year-old girl named Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy), whose family insists she has been subsisting on “manna from heaven” for months now. In her forthcoming adaptation of The Wonder, meanwhile, it’s an entire community that’s taken a victim hostage-at least emotionally. Ahead of the film’s premiere, a quick recap of everything we know so far about the project.Īuthor Emma Donoghue received an Oscar nomination for her gut-wrenching 2015 screenplay for Room, which revolves around a 20-something being held captive by her abuser. For her first Netflix project, the Don’t Worry Darling star is going back to her period drama roots as the lead in the adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s novel The Wonder. ![]() Florence Pugh cut her teeth in the 2017 adaptation of Lady Macbeth, a Victorian thriller set in rural Northumberland which saw her play a young murderess. ![]()
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