It seems that Jason Clarke has cornered the market on playing husbands whose wives look elsewhere in 2017. That is one of the plot threads of the Sundance hit Mudbound where Carey Mulligan plays his wife, who has eyes for his brother played by Garrett Hedlund. And now in the The Aftermath he’s a British colonel in Germany right after WWII, whose wife (Keira Knightley) forms a bond with the German widower (Alexander Skarsgård) who used to own the house they now live in. The film just finished shooting in Prague under the helm of James Kent (Testament to Youth). It might appear on the fall festival circuit.
Knightley was seen this week in London shooting scenes for that Love Actually sequel we’ve been hearing so much about...
No it’s not a real sequel; actually it’s a short film being released as a part of this year’s Red Nose Day, a telethon that raises money for the charity Comic Relief. The event was first held in the U.K. in 1988; it has since expanded to the U.S., where the telecast is broadcast by NBC.
Most of the original cast is back: Hugh Grant, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Bill Nighy, Andrew Lincoln, and Rowan Atkinson. The Knightley-Ejiofor-Lincoln love triangle seems to still endure 13 years on. Lincoln still has those damn cue cards too. So he still has the hots for his best friend's wife after all those years? How are you going to make this tricky situation cute, Richard Curtis? We will know when the reunion short premieres across the pond on March 24 and in the U.S. May 25.
This is all well and good but what we really want to know is when Knightley will start shooting that Colette bio-pic that got us excited more than a year ago. That's bound to have a few tricky love triangles as well.
Rank these Keira projects in order of anticipation!