Ncuti Gatwa teases 'dark, scary and fun' new movie with Olivia Colman
The Roses will also star Benedict Cumberbatch, Andy Samberg and Kate McKinnon.
Ncuti Gatwa's career keeps going from strength to strength – and one of the Doctor Who star's most exciting upcoming projects is new film The Roses, which is set for release next year.
Billed as a satirical black comedy drama, the film is directed by Bombshell's Jay Roach and will serve as a reimagining of Danny DeVito's 1989 film The War of the Roses, based on a novel by the same name by Warren Adler.
It tells the story of a seemingly picture perfect marriage that begins to go drastically wrong, and Gatwa is just one of many big names in a starry ensemble cast that includes Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as the two leads.
And that's not all: there are also key supporting roles for the likes of Kate McKinnon, Andy Samberg, Sunita Mani and Jamie Demetriou among others. It's therefore no surprise that Gatwa seems to have greatly enjoyed working on the project.
"It’s outrageous, but beautifully transitioned into 2024," he told Vanity Fair for the magazine's Hollywood Issue. "It is dark and it’s scary and it’s fun."
Gatwa particularly appreciated working with Colman, going on to say: "She’s exactly how you’d imagine her to be, like the best friend that we all want to have. It’s effortless how she leads the set and how she goes from being herself to being in character – everything is effortless.
"There was one afternoon that she ordered scones and jam and crumpets and cream and taught me and Sunita Mani how to have scones and tea properly, like the queen. It was a glorious afternoon."
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Gatwa also teased that the chemistry between Colman and Cumberbatch is "just off the charts" and heaped praise on the former Sherlock star, calling him "a handsome and charming, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely man".
There is no confirmed release date yet for The Roses, but we'll update when we hear any more.
In the meantime, you can see Gatwa at the National Theatre in The Importance of Being Earnest from 20th November 2024 to 25th January 2025, while Colman's latest role in Paddington in Peru is in cinemas right now.
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Patrick Cremona is the Senior Film Writer at Radio Times, and looks after all the latest film releases both in cinemas and on streaming. He has been with the website since October 2019, and in that time has interviewed a host of big name stars and reviewed a diverse range of movies.
