Jodie Comer Brings 'The Last Duel' To France With Ridley Scott

William Earl “The Last Duel” star Jodie Comer is set to receive the Variety Outstanding Achievement Award, distributed in association with the Edinburgh TV Festival as part of the organization’s annual TV Awards.The honor celebrates Comer’s extensive body of work, which ranges from BBC America’s “Killing Eve” to international blockbusters such as “Free Guy” and more recently, Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel.” The actor’s award will be paired with a wide-ranging conversation with Variety.“Jodie

The Last Duel, in which Comer speaks with a French accent as Marguerite de Carrouges, the wife of Matt Damon’s Jean de Carrouges.In her internationally acclaimed show Killing Eve, Comer speaks primarily with a Russian accent when playing assassin Villanelle.However, when Comer and Affleck were recently together at the Venice Film Festival promoting the film, Affleck was shocked to hear Comer speak in her native voice.“I think that was the first time Ben heard me solidly speaking in my own voice,

Jordan Moreau Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel” may hinge on two knights fiercely battling to the death, but the real protagonist is the woman at the center of the conflict, who was a footnote in history but finally given a voice by star Jodie Comer.The “Killing Eve” actor plays Marguerite de Carrouges, a French noblewoman in the late 1300s who is raped by her husband’s friend and testifies in court.

Gladiator 2, confirming the sequel is being “written now”.The director, who helmed the 2000 classic Gladiator starring Russell Crowe, stated his plans to helm the sequel once he concludes work on his next project, KitBag.Starring Joaquin Phoenix as Napoléon Bonaparte opposite Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) as his wife Josephine, KitBag follows the French leader’s origins and swift rise as emperor.Speaking to Empire magazine, Scott said: “I’m already having [the next] Gladiator written now.

Jodie Comer is going glam for the premiere of her new movie!

Killing Eve’s final season might not be the last we see of the show’s universe.The actress, who plays stylish assassin Villanelle, will return for the show’s fourth season when it airs next year – although it seems show bosses might be planning a continuation of sorts.Asked by Phillip Schofield on This Morning (September 15) if the idea of a Killing Eve movie has been floated around, Comer said: “I don’t think so.

Jodie Comer is well known for her role in Killing Eve, but tonight she is back on our screens with something a little closer to home as she will star in a one-part series called Help with fellow Scouse actor Stephen Graham. The new drama, which will air on Channel 4 tonight, is set during the Covid pandemic in March 2020 at Bright Sky Homes, a care home in Liverpool.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have proudly declared The Last Duel to be a feminist film.Based on the titular 2004 book by Eric Jager, the film – directed by Ridley Scott, with Affleck and Damon writing, producing and starring – is based on the true story of the last medieval trial by combat.Set in 14th century France, the story follows a duel between Jean de Carrouges (Damon) and Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver), after the latter rapes the former’s wife, Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer).Take a

France, The Last Duel follows Jodie Comer's character Marguerite de Carrouges after she is sexually assaulted by her husband's best friend.

Everyone has their own truth, as they say, but some of those truths are considerably truer than others. Old pals Matt Damon and Ben Affleck join forces with established indie filmmaker Nicole Holofcener to adapt a true story – that of Marguerite de Carrouges, a 14th century French noblewoman who was raped by an old friend of her husband’s – and tell it from three different angles in Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorRidley Scott described “The Last Duel,” which stars Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, Adam Driver and Ben Affleck, as “a very challenging film, which illuminates an important issue,” when introducing the historical epic to the audience before its world premiere Friday at the Venice Film Festival.The festival had just feted the director, by bestowing on him its Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker award, given to an individual who has made a “particularly original

Jodie Comer is looking amazing on the red carpet!

Matt Damon has his wife Luciana by his side for his latest movie premiere!

Ben Croll Everything old was new again at the Venice Film Festival on Friday, as actor Ben Affleck hit the red carpet hand in hand with girlfriend Jennifer Lopez, formally launching Bennifer 2.0.The couple posed alongside co-stars Matt Damon and Jodie Comer and director Ridley Scott as they took in the world premiere of their historical drama “The Last Duel,” a true story of betrayal and revenge set in 14th century France.

In shades of the gunmetal gray that has become the grading palette of choice for Serious Historical Epics — possible because arterial blood spray shows up so nice and red against it —Ridley Scott‘s starry, surprisingly engaging “Rashomon“-inflected “The Last Duel” opens on the wintry December day of the duel in question.