EXCLUSIVE: Jodie Whittaker will star in and exec produce The Country, a role-reversal short film from filmmaker Ella Grace Kennedy. The cast of the dystopian thriller short also features Eoin McCaul, Anna Popplewell (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Jake Kenny-Byrne (Miss Austen).
The Country tackles bodily autonomy, oppression and control through the lens of an extremist religious commune, the producers told Deadline. Set in a role reversed society, the film depicts a seventeen-year-old Aaron (McCaul) struggling under rigid laws imposed upon the male body, and as doubt begins to creep into his belief system.
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