Vanessa Kirby to star in ‘Kitbag’ following Jodie Comer’s exit resulting from scheduling points

By PTI

LOS ANGELES: Oscar-nominated actor Vanessa Kirby will now play Josephine in Ridley Scott’s historic movie “Kitbag”, after Jodie Comer dropped out of the challenge resulting from scheduling points.

According to The Hollywood Feature, Comer exited the film as its filming was overlapping along with her first West End stage manufacturing, “Prima Facie”.

“Unfortunately, due to COVID and changes of schedule, I don’t think I can make Kitbag work right now due to a scheduling conflict,” the “Killing Eve” star advised THR’s Scott Feinberg on his Awards Chatter podcast.

It would have been Comer’s second movie with Scott put up one other interval drama, 2021’s “The Last Duel”.

“Kitbag” will revolve across the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, the nineteenth century French army chief and emperor to be performed by Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix.

The movie can even concentrate on the love story between Napoleon and his spouse, Josephine.

It marks the reunion between Scott and Phoenix after their a number of Oscar-winning film “Gladiator” (2000).

Shooting on “Kitbag” is scheduled to start in Europe later this month, whereas Comer is ready to start out rehearsals for her first West End stage manufacturing in March, for a restricted engagement from April to June.

Kirby, who rose to worldwide prominence along with her portrayal of Princess Margaret within the first two seasons of the Netflix sequence “The Crown”, acquired an Oscar nomination for “Pieces of a Woman” final 12 months.

She will subsequent reprise her position of the arms seller Alanna Mitsopolis/ White Widow within the upcoming “Mission: Impossible VII”, fronted by Tom Cruise.