Nathan Stewart-Jarrett loves an erotic thriller. “The Bedroom Window with Elizabeth McGovern. Body Heat with Kathleen Turner. The Last Seduction … I mean, basically, I love all of those movies,” he says.
The reason we are talking about erotic thrillers is that this is how I have just described Femme, an electrifying two-hander starring Stewart-Jarrett as Jules, a drag queen who is beaten up by a gang of homophobic young men. His life derailed by the attack, Jules withdraws into himself, until a chance encounter at a gay sauna reveals two useful pieces of information: first, that Preston, the gang’s ringleader, is himself gay, and second, that Preston hasn’t recognised his former victim out of drag. Jules realises he has been handed the opportunity to take devastating revenge on his attacker. What ensues is a tense game of cat and mouse that keeps you on your toes throughout.
