Elizabeth Debicki Joins Viola Davis in Steve McQueen's Heist Thriller
Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 2:30PM Thus far in her career, actress Elizabeth Debicki has stolen so many scenes – spectacularly – from such a small handful of projects that we should go ahead and award her the Crown Jewels before she sneaks in and takes them herself. Either way, her electric turns in The Great Gatsby, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and especially her surreptitiously sharp performance at the heart of The Night Manager have already earned Elizabeth the status of a young queen on the silver and small screens - and the announcement of her most recent project promises she'll keep on stealing. Per Variety, she’s to lend her elemental femme fatale flair to Steve McQueen’s newest film Widows and join a verifiable dream team behind and in front of the camera. Before reading onward I must implore you to beware at your own pleasure.
Four years have passed since his formalist masterpiece 12 Years a Slave won the Academy Award for Best Picture, marking Widows as McQueen’s eagerly awaited return to motion pictures; HBO pulled the plug on his would-be television series Codes of Conduct in the interim before making it to air. Debicki will star in the heist thriller alongside the incomparable Viola Davis as two of four eponymous widows who set out to finish the job that their deceased husbands began in vain. As if the thought of these two icons cracking safes or donning disguises wasn’t enough to take your breath away, two of 2016’s most revelatory, swoon-inducing actors round out the cast list thus far: Moonlight’s Andre Holland and Tony Award winner Cynthia Erivo of The Color Purple. McQueen and Gone Girl maestro Gillian Flynn will co-pen the film’s screenplay, to add onto the glut of top tier talent.
Widows won’t hit theaters until 2018 so this tease can’t help but feel a bit excruciating. How do you plan to best appreciate Elizabeth Debicki in the meantime?
Reader Comments (14)
Hoping that she'll be the second great Marvel FILM villain. The TV side is doing much better in that regard.
This. Cast.
SO excited for this. I saw Elizabeth Debicki on stage recently (with Mark Strong) and she was incredible.
I saw The Red Barn too, and fully second the praise, I really wish I had seen The Maids. I'm glad that she has finally got a film that on paper at least is the kind of project she deserves with a director like McQueen. It was reported that the final widow should be of latino origin, it will be interesting to see who they get to complete the quartet! Hopefully she has a great character in Guardians and does not get killed off so she has the opportunity to reprise the role down the line.
I sincerely hope Ocean's Eight (June) and Widows (TBD) give each other some breathing room in '18.
She even stole The Maids from Blanchett and Huppert!
Talking about Viola Daivs. I am really looking forward to her Harriet Tubman bio for HBO. But I now read that Cynthia Eriva will star as Tubman in a theatrical release.
She has an extremely blessed career imo. Going back and forth with all screen, tv and stage, and all getting good praises for her. Can't wait to see Elizabeth Debicki be our new goddess.
By the end of The Great Gatsby I was waiting for the credits to roll so I could look up who that amazing actress was. And she's only, what, 26 now? It's worth paying a close eye on her career, she's definitely going places.
Oh you guys probably haven't seen her in "The Kettering Incident. A scandi-noir/sci-fi thriller set in Tasmania :) She was mesmerizing. We really need her back her in Australia ASAP so we can have a season 2.
I've only seen her in UNCLE and was not impressed (electric? No; over the top? yes, although purposely so but not great regardless.) With that said, I beleive the praise for her otherwise - its too widespread to not have some truth.
Talking about Viola Daivs. I am really looking forward to her Harriet Tubman bio for HBO. But I now read that Cynthia Eriva will star as Tubman in a theatrical release.
Notice the age difference. One will tackle the latter half of her life. While the theatrical production will show the younger heroic years.
Rewatch Night Manager😄😄
Wait, Debicki is already an "icon"? Um, no. But this movie sounds awesome.