EXCLUSIVE: Alice Birch’s directorial debut Sweetsick starring Cate Blanchett at Searchlight Pictures has added Alien: Romulus actor Spike Fearn to its cast.
The movie follows a mercurial woman (Blanchett) with a strange and piercing gift – the ability to see what others most intimately need, often at great personal cost – who sets out on a journey home. More actors are expected to board the project.
Birch is also writing with Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Theo Barrowclough producing for House Productions (Conclave, Mint, The Wonder); Blanchett under her Dirty Films banner; and Lee Groombridge.
EPs are Farhana Bhula, Director of Film4; and Alice Whittemore, Development & Production Executive of Film4; Zoe Edwards, Harry Dixon and James Green for House Productions; and Danny Cohen and Len Blavatnik for Access Entertainment.
Fearn can also be seen in James L. Brooks’ Ella McCay, out on December 12, as well as Alicia MacDonald’s CC: Emily from Focus Features. The actor is repped by UTA, B-Side Management, Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.
Searchlight VP Development & Production Pete Spencer and Creative Executive Cameron Chidsey are overseeing the project, reporting into Production & Development Heads Katie Goodson-Thomas and DanTram Nguyen.