Jack Whitehall, Jennifer Saunders join starry cast of Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
The cast already includes Haley Bennett, Timothy Spall and Lily Allen.
Jack Whitehall, Jennifer Saunders and Sally Phillips have been added to the cast for an upcoming film adaptation of Virginia Woolf's 1919 novel Night and Day.
They join an already starry ensemble for the production, which will see Haley Bennett (Cyrano) take on the lead role of Katharine Hilbery and also includes Timothy Spall (The Sixth Commandment), Lily Allen (How to Build a Girl) and Austrian actor Elyas M’Barek – a big star in Germany.
Production has just got under way on the film in Newcastle, with BAFTA nominee Tina Gharavi (I Am Nasrine) directing from a script by Justine Waddell (Janine Jansen: Falling for Stradivari), and a first-look image featuring Bennett, Spall, Whitehall and Saunders has also been made available.
Other cast members for the film include Misia Butler (Kaos), Alex Macqueen (Downton Abbey), Simon Phillips (The Witcher) and Frances Barber (Goal!).
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A synopsis reads: "Set in an era when glass ceilings were made of concrete, Bennett will play Katharine Hilbery — one woman who insisted on reaching for the stars.
"Based on what has been called Woolf’s funniest novel, Night and Day is described as an 'unromantic comedy' about a passionate astronomer who does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage.
"Contemporary in tone, the story of Katharine’s bold challenge to the Edwardian patriarchy is set against the backdrop of the suffragette movement and advances in science and technology, at the turn of the 20th century."
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