{"id":8737,"date":"2025-04-10T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/8737\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T18:44:08","slug":"stephen-fry-joins-british-sports-comedy-drama-touche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/8737\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fry Joins British Sports Comedy Drama &#8216;Touche&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/stephen-fry\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stephen-fry\" data-tag=\"stephen-fry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Fry<\/a> has lined up his next feature, landing a role in the upcoming British indie film \u201cTouche.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFrom Parvinder Shergill (\u201cKaur\u201d), the film \u2014\u00a0described as a \u201cfamily feel good sports comedy drama\u201d \u2014revolves around a young British South Asian Sikh woman who decides to turn her life around by entering the world of fencing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tShergill, who co-wrote, co-directed and co-produced \u201cTouche,\u201d also stars in the film, leading a cast that, alongside Fry, also includes Nina Wadia, Shazia Mirza, Paul Chowdhry, Matthew Lewis, Kayleigh-Paige Rees and Steven Pinder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCreated by Shergill, the film was co-directed with Leif Johnson and co-written with Juggy Sohal. Shergill produces for Pinder Productioins alongside co-producer Kayleigh-Paige Rees for Raspberry Films. Executive producers includes Shams A Akhtar, Gina Bariah and Jeevan Singh. The film\u2019s music was produced by Rowan Bradley, while the feature was made in association with the Knightsbridge Fencing Club in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFry recently become Sir Stephen Fry, having been knighted in the 2024 New Year\u2019s Honors list. Earlier this year he received the lifetime achievement award at the Newport Beach Film Festival U.K. and Ireland Honors ceremony. His last major feature was playing Lena Dunham\u2019s Holocaust survivor father in the Berlin Film Festival-bowing title \u201cTreasure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tShergill last year announced \u201cBreak a Leg,\u201d a British indie mockumentary set in the world of drama schools that she also co-wrote and was producing for her Pinder Productions alongside Gina Bariah from Harrik Publishing and Productions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn \u201cBreak a Leg,\u201d Shergill will play Jazzy, a woman competing with her drama student counterparts to land a deal with the agent of her dreams to fulfil her Christmas wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Fry has lined up his next feature, landing a role in the upcoming British indie film \u201cTouche.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,5737,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-8737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-stephen-fry","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114315150383239381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}