Richard E. Grant has signed on to the Netflix comedy ‘Ladies First’.
The 67-year-old actor will be reuniting with his ‘Saltburn’ co-star Rosamund Pike and joining Sacha Baron Cohen in the upcoming rom-com, which will be an adaption of Eleonore Pourriat's French language film 'I Am Not an Easy Man' ('Je ne suis pas un homme facile'), which was made available to stream on Netflix in 2018.
The original film stars Vincent Elbaz as a chauvinist who ends up in a parallel universe where stereotypical gender roles are reversed.
As well as Grant, Emily Mortimer, Charles Dance, Fiona Shaw, Tom Davis and Weruche Opia are also part of the cast of 'Ladies First', which will be directed by ‘Me Before You’ filmmaker Thea Sharrock.
While it was previously confirmed Liza Chasin from 3dot Production and Four by Two Films’ Eleonore Dailly, Edouard de Lachomette would be producing ’Ladies First’, the picture is yet to receive a release date.
Grant could recently be seen in director Emerald Fennell’s dark comedy ‘Saltburn’, which followed Oxford University student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) who visits his classmate Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi) at his family’s estate, only for series of disturbing events to engulf the boys and the house.
Grant - who played Felix’s father Sir James Catton - previously said he was delighted that the sexual scenes in ‘Saltburn’ “provoked so much” from audiences when it hit theatres last year.
In an interview for the Metro newspaper’s 60 Seconds column, the ‘Hudson Hawk’ star said: “Well, I think in the age we live where you can see anything on social media or download anything at any minute of the day, to have something that is still going to surprise people ... and because it deals so forensically with sexual obsession ... I love the fact that it provoked so much.
“The director, Emerald Fennell, said, ‘This is a family film. People should watch it with their grandmothers.’ And some of them did. And are still recovering!”
