Daddy Issues and The White Lotus season 3 star Aimee Lou-Wood has landed her next major role.
The actor will be appearing in Anxious People opposite none other than Angelina Jolie, reports Deadline.
The Marc Forster-directed film already had a lot of buzz as this year’s Cannes Film Festival was gearing up to kick off, and there’s even more hype now thanks to Aimee’s casting.
And her former Sex Education co-star Ncuti Gatwa is very excited too.
Aimee shared the casting announcement article to her Instagram, writing “QUEEN ANGE!!!!” in the caption, with Doctor Who star Gatwa writing in the comments: “Is this what dreams are made of?”
“LFGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!” commented fellow White Lotus star Natasha Rothwell, while Patrick Schwarzenegger wrote: “YOU LEGEND”.
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The official synopsis teases what we can expect from the film: “The day before Christmas Eve, investment banker Zara (Jolie) begrudgingly finds herself mingling with a group of strangers at an open house.
“When a reluctant bank robber, Grace (Wood), inadvertently takes the group hostage, chaos and oversharing ensues, secrets are revealed and literally nothing goes according to plan.
“A film about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined.”
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Last month, Aimee hit out at a Saturday Night Live sketch which made fun of her teeth, calling it “mean and unfunny”.
“Take the piss for sure – that’s what the show is about – but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way!” she said.
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