The Housekeeper will fictionalise the love story which inspired Daphne Du Maurier’s novel Rebecca
BY ELLA GAUCI, IMAGES BY NETFLIX AND AMAZON PRIME
Uma Thurman and Phoebe Dynevor will be playing forbidden sapphic lovers in a new period drama The Housekeeper.
Written by Rose Tremain and directed by Richard Eyre, The Housekeeper will fictionalise the inspiration behind Daphne Du Maurier’s classic novel Rebecca. Set in Cornwall, the film follows Dannii (Thurman) who becomes infatuated with a visitor to the house: the one and only Daphne Du Maurier (Dynevor). This intoxicating romance will chart all our favourite sapphic tropes in a period drama, including a lot of wistful longing.
In a statement, Eyre commented: “Rose Tremain’s story grapples with love, fear, fiction, desire, ambition, death and legacy — perhaps epic, whilst providing us with the delicacy of most complex, nuanced characters and unexpected shifts in audience sympathy.”
This will not be the first time Uma Thurman has played a key role in an LGBTQIA film, having starred in Amazon Prime’s Red, White, & Royal Blue in 2023 alongside The L Word’s Sarah Shahi.
It’s safe to say that fans were excited by the announcement of this news, with one tweeting: “I love how Uma Thurman has fully embraced her core audience (sapphics and genderqueers) and now Phoebe Dynevor is like her young protégé.”
Another wrote: “Phoebe??? My dream was for her to make a sapphic movie… and it came true.”
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