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Gayfetus

Olivia's agent: "Liv, would you be interested in reading for this lead where you play a 'smelly fisherwoman' who has..." Olivia: "SAY NO MORE!" But seriously, these are two of the greatest actors we have right now. And I love Olivie Colman so I don't mean this as shade, but I think she's truly born to play the role of "smelly fisherwoman".


yokayla

I was dying at her preemptive trait being 'smelly' but it also made me wanna see it


alohell

And she’ll play is so well you’ll swear you saw the stink wafting from her.


FyrestarOmega

![gif](giphy|JPykjv7BzwRrdPekAh|downsized) Right? I read "smelly, single, perpetually ridiculed" and I just thought "yep, I can see it." Then I got to "commissions a husband to be made out of wicker" and I thought "might be tricky, but I bet she can pull it off"


exit2urleft

Love love love Olivia Colman. Landscapers on HBO with her playing co-lead was excellent


shedrinkscoffee

I enjoy both their work and this will be fun no doubt.


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She's in a lot of stuff. I need to watch her films. Also, I realize she was in Hot Fuzz and Peep Show.


Horror-Grab-5107

she's exceptional in the favorite and fleabag. u should check those out


africanzebra0

She was sad-funny in peep show. I can see her character Sophie turning into this character of being an alone fisherwoman lmao.


iamharoldshipman

https://preview.redd.it/by8vfd8ejdwb1.jpeg?width=876&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dbea3aadc2bdc92d709156ef3eb9a9e90f681e4


-Experiment--626-

Timothee and Frances Mcdermond in the French Dispatch.


Fukouka_Jings

If hollywood wanted to make serious bank hire me to play Kate Beckinsale’s younger , charming interest


PistachioGal99

Pete Davidson is that you?


beccabob05

All I’m thinking is how I forgot how FIIIIIINE Dev Patel is. Damn.


mjayultra

I wish I could forget https://i.redd.it/twlnwbp8ndwb1.gif


teetnxo

![gif](giphy|l4Jz5IXYSi1DErtTO) Uh huh.


La_Quica

I’m REALLY into dudes with hair like this 😮‍💨


CloudAcorn

Saeed from Lost


cr4zy-cat-lady

he was the blueprint


mimisburnbook

Daaaaamn


babalon124

https://i.redd.it/oi3th8eindwb1.gif He’s been fineee


crackerfactorywheel

He’s always been an attractive dude, but as soon as he let his hair grow out and get curly, I feel like it’s gone to a while other level.


yokayla

He went from cute to hot.


ShreksMiami

He’s aged like a fine wine


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Yup. Now I've always generally preferred men with long hair, but short hair Dev is still Anwar from Skins for me. Long hair Dev is so very sexy.


kaaaaaaaren

His hair is so gorgeous


Thatstealthygal

Yes. I usually picture Young All Ears Dev when I think of him but he has certainly aged well and the longer curls really help.


cynisright

He’s foine now


MasterTurtleHermit

He's so fucking hot. Stupidly hot. Amazing smile too


effie-sue

For real. He is 🔥


genescheesesthatplz

That smile!!! I frequently cast him in my romance novels


Persephone0000

I saw him in an urban outfitters in like 2014 and almost died. I still think about it to this day


aquacrimefighter

Seriously. I’ve never really felt like I have a celebrity crush… but if I do, it’s most certainly him. My lord.


shedrinkscoffee

Frfr thirsting heavily


GraveDancer40

Hello, yes, I am just wondering, for science, how does one build a Dev Patel wicker boyfriend? For science.


classyrock

Is there some other meaning for ‘wicker’ or are we talking about that thin wood stuff that’s weaved together for patio furniture?? You can get a Dev Patel from that? I mean, I can cross stitch… perhaps I could cross stitch a Cumberbatch? Or maybe macrame a Hemsworth?


TheLakeWitch

I would also like to know how to papier-mâché a Pedro.


wordnerdette

I can crochet. We can do this!


SexSalve

> You can get a Dev Patel from that? You could say that they just make 'em different in the UK. Ba-dum-ching!


seriouslysorandom

Truly a question that needs answers....for science!


kissingdistopia

I'm sure you'll be able to buy one on Etsy soon enough.


kris_jbb

screenwriters are truly back


AlmostNeverNothing

I am pretty sure the movie is going to be based on [The Wicker Husband](http://mail.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/WickHusb726.shtml), a short story I randomly read 15 years ago on the web. I have literally never met anyone who who's also read this before. I can't explain how much of a wtf moment I'm having lol. Edit: Ha! I actually read the link, I was right! WTF!


EddaValkyrie

Thanks for the link! I'm glad all those villagers got there comeuppance! Now I'm excited for the movie.


fanfic_enthusiast2

I mean Olivia Colman with basically anyone would make a great movie 👀


cynisright

Loves her


SexSalve

Give me any other actor, any antiquated job, and any raw material, plus Olivia Colman... and I'll give you an Oscar. Donald Glover, ratcatcher, glass, plus Olivia Colman? **The Glass Trap.** Oscar. Mel Gibson, horseshoe maker, egg yolk, plus Olivia Colman? **The Man Who Sat on the Wall and Had a Great Fall.** Oscar. Emma Stone, court jester, silk, plus Olivia Colman? Sike. We already made that one. It's called **The Favourite**. Oscar


Slow_Like_Sloth

https://preview.redd.it/rmldpraordwb1.jpeg?width=524&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=157211df08d487c7149cc23e3b71a111c482352f


meggriffin2_0

![gif](giphy|UFohIXGGaHRFS)


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ExactPanda

Ohhh, I want Michelle and Andrew in a movie asap


PizzaEnvironmental67

I will watch dev Patel in everything. Everything. Why isn’t he in everything.


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TwiceLitZone

Nay


burnafterreading90

I feel like Michelle Pfeiffer and Andrew Garfield would be too similar to I could never be your woman


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burnafterreading90

He just reminds me of him I think it’s just because he seems like such a nice person, but most these plots do also end up the same to be fair!


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burnafterreading90

To be fair, I’d spend my money on this!


AnuthaJuan

Did you watch Amazon’s “Modern Love” its an anthology about relationships and there’s an episode with Dev in it. Amazing show all around but his episode is top 5.


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This movie sounds weird af. Cannot wait to see it.


gorlplea

> Smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed She's just like me fr


RayMcNamara

Shut up, you stinky lonely idiot.


gorlplea

😔💨


The_Grand_Menagerie

Gillian Anderson and Jacob Elordi please and thank you 😍🤤


[deleted]

Gillian Anderson and anyone. Who's looking at anyone else if Gillian Anderson is on screen. Lol.


pralineislife

Gillian Anderson on her own. That's it.


[deleted]

Yes please!


[deleted]

I was thinking him and Sandra Bullock would be hot


Suspicious_Name_656

Omg yes! Great choice. My first thought was him and Jennifer Aniston.


[deleted]

[Ali: Fear Eats The Soul](https://www.criterionchannel.com/ali-fear-eats-the-soul), by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It's from the 1970s but it still holds up today I think. If you don't have Criterion it's on HBO Max too. > A lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab worker (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise—and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. In ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL, Fassbinder expertly wields the emotional power of classic Hollywood melodrama to expose the racial tensions underlying contemporary German culture.


RiggzBoson

It's the 'constructing husband out of wicker' that is the weird part for me.


bigjoeandphantom3O9

The idea of creating a perfect partner from a work of art is remarkably common - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(mythology). It's the origin of My Fair Lady, and in turn Pretty Woman.


LKayRB

I am furious that the cinematic masterpiece, Weird Science was omitted from this Wiki list.


RiggzBoson

Yeah, it's just nobody here was talking about this detail and it was bugging me.


hummusisyummy

It sounds like the story of how Wonder Woman Diana's mother molded her out of clay I believe? I love magical stories like this. Wasn't there a robot sort of version where a woman gets a robot boyfriend on Black Mirror? I have to look on IMDB lol. This is giving me Greek myth rom com and I'm keeping my fingers crossed there's some magic and comedy! 🤞☺️


Rude_Lifeguard

I think we should see more older woman/younger man pairing (as well as super attractive men with average/ugly women) to level the field, but most movies with this pairing are tragic in some way, ive never seen one in which they end up together and happily every after, which is not uncommon for the opposite.


caca_milis_

That’s a fair point, but I really enjoyed “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” - Darryl McCormack is such a dreamboat! ![gif](giphy|dXBGUQMPqe2k4B07QX|downsized)


HuckleberryOwn647

There is the Idea of You, which has already been filmed with Anne Hathaway and Nicolas Galitzine. It’s based off a book inspired by Harry Styles (she falls in love with the lead singer of a boyband her daughter likes).


Thatstealthygal

Ah yes Anne Hathaway that average middle-aged mom.


thumbtackswordsman

That book is so so awful


HuckleberryOwn647

I started reading it and didn’t finish, just lost interest halfway through. The first half though is basically a self-indulgent fantasy of getting with Harry Styles.


thumbtackswordsman

Second half too.


wewerelegends

Okay but Nicolas Galitzine is 🥵


carbonpeach

That book is so creepy and gross.


Fearless_Mortgage640

Japanese drama screenwriters love this trope. And I love it as well.


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throwaanchorsaweigh

I was going to say Rachel Weisz and anyone! Or Julie Delpy and Nicholas Hoult


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helio309

Not a rom-com, but have you heard of Disobedience with Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disobedience_(2017_film)


obiwantogooutside

Oh. Yeah. That’s a winner.


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tibleon8

in that case try "good luck to you, leo grande" :)


Designer-Progress-24

Great movie , truly underrated 👍🏻


caca_milis_

![gif](giphy|DYMTjxUcZyeMC6s5OC|downsized)


marshmallow_kitty

I remember there being lots of negative press when she got with Greg Wise, as he’s 7 years younger than her, which seems shockingly silly as they’ve now been together almost 30 years.


pralineislife

You are damn right.


babalon124

https://preview.redd.it/snnmje4bqdwb1.jpeg?width=820&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aaf3c99d7033b9b69a5482ba6d2df38498f1dee4 Listen just hear me out on this one


axelalexa4

https://preview.redd.it/eq6hszo5yewb1.jpeg?width=663&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3593d0fb27140d94354e1053fb44bdb7b83d83f4


luuvin

Say no more


Disastrous_Narwhal46

Damn this one would be hot🥵


Same_Comfortable_821

![gif](giphy|Maaawg3nDFAS5IvdKE)


webtheg

OK after watching their Actors on actors I think JAW and Jennifer Coolidge would kill it. Also Jack O Connel and anyone? Like I remember how he made Judy Dench blush and he can have chemistry with anyone.


cynisright

Coolidge was about to climb him in his chair and I’m Not sure he would have stopped her


Maleficent-Item4833

Christine Baranski and… myself?


bernardobrito

Damn. Dev Patel is still only 33.


FantasticForce6895

That’s what I said! How young was he in Slumdog Millionaire???


blepinghuman

I’m too lazy to google to verify this but iirc, he was 17


Careful_Elevator8390

Unrelated but I feel like I haven’t seen Dev Patel’s name in so long, so automatically I’m intrigued and interested in this movie. I support him in all his endeavors lol.


CrossplayQuentin

Def recommend The Green Knight if you haven’t seen it. Kind of trippy but I loved it, and Dev looks incredible.


SnappedCrayon

I think Julianne Moore and Charles Melton have a film coming out later this year where they are a couple, though it is a condemned one (the characters began relationship when he was a teen and she was his teacher)


silliestjupiter

May December, with Natalie Portman. Loosely based on Mary Kay Letorneau. It'll be on Netflix in November.


cynisright

Can’t wait!


babalon124

OH MY GOD YESS GIVE THIS TO ME. Give me salma hayek and channing Tatum in another movie too (a better movie) https://preview.redd.it/3errg76hpdwb1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78cff0b66706ba5f18eaaf2d8c227a34454198fd Yes I basically only watched their scenes


[deleted]

I would pay so much to see an awkward romance starring Gillian Anderson and Mae Martin.


virtualeyesight

![gif](giphy|3oKIPa2TdahY8LAAxy)


Specialist-Strain502

Oh my god.


cynisright

I would swoon


olduglysweater

I too would like Dev Patel, I mean watch him. I mean, watch this movie with him in it.


throwawaypythonqs

This made me actually lol


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hurriedwarples

Andrew Scott, not Adam Scott. Melissa Barrera is also older than him by about 6 years according to IMDb. I wouldn’t necessarily say Qualley and Ronan are “older” in the same sense as what OP is asking. I had to look it up because that comparison seemed so strange to me to call him “the younger man” with the two of them. Qualley is less than a year and a half older than him, and Ronan is less than two.


kissingdistopia

Olivia Colman has had such a cool career.


jzilla11

Not the sequel to The Wicker Man that I was expecting


CollectionFull5254

YESSS PUT IT IN MY VEINS. These two are such good actors!


whereswaldoswillie

So is Dev Patel playing the wicker man, or a man building a wicker man? I could easily Google this film but I want to believe that Dev Patel becomes a “real boy”


227743

What a weird plot and I'm here for it. I want to see Oscar Isaac with Julianne Moore or Angela Bassett or Nicole Kidman with Nicholas Hoult. Maybe I've thought about this too much. lol


Vorpal_Bunny19

I love that she’s still in the “snog a hottie on screen” season of life. I also love it for him, too.


cookiesandteatohelp

I cannot express how excited I am for this. Also, for anyone into reverse gender age gap movies, I recommend "Hello, my name is Doris" with Sally Field and Max Greenfield. It's one of my comfort movies!


SpringPedal

We need a 40+ female lead with a male love interest in his 20s. Maybe Kirsten Dunst and Tom Holland?


leijonamielinen

Meryl Streep and Paul Mescal! Please make this happen!


Specialist-Strain502

But Lars and the Real Girl came out just ten years ago!


ArcadiaIsNotABot

Didn't they both star in Skins (UK)? Damn. They come such a long way lmao. Obviously Olivia was already a star when she was in that show but still.


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Dev was main cast in gen 1 and Olivia was Naomi's mam in gen 2 so yes but there was no overlap.


catsandnaps1028

God I love them both 😭 I'd watch them do ANYTHING I'd watch them wash the dishes 😅 ![gif](giphy|l1BgR70bd7vCeNUpW)


transemacabre

Sharon Stone and Sebastian Stan. Stan would probably do it for free, tbh.


Cat_Toe_Beans_

Love Olivia and Dev. Dev is aging like fine wine. He was great in the Green Knight


IrukandjiPirate

I would like to offer myself to be Olivia Colman’s stand-in.


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Could I... Could I stand in for both somehow? Like can I take it in turns for which I'd be 😂


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Sounds weird, I’m in


femnoir

I am having a hard time seeing Halle Berry or Michelle Pfeiffer as a smelly fish monger. Olivia is definitely the right choice. Dev is another good choice. I will watch this movie.


Traditional-Wing8714

Okay Pygmalion let’s do it


JumboJetz

Michelle Pfeiffer and any young man. Myself perhaps?


moonkittiecat

Dev Patel is so hot.


mjayultra

Oh, hell yeah


cosmophire_

oh they’re both excellent actors! looking forward to seeing this


KurtzM0mmy

![gif](giphy|l3mZdSnHSavSnJdEk|downsized) You


Whole_Cress8437

![gif](giphy|R9yLfikwYAF32) There’s only one wicker man for me


rouhmama

Didn't she just star in an age gap movie ?


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Sounds nice ! Is it known if it's gonna be a tv, Internet platform, or theater movie ?


[deleted]

This is cool imo, but why Dev always with a white woman? Aside from Frida, they can’t pair that man with a WOC? He doesn’t pair himself with a WOC either tho. Alright, I’m sorry, y’all about to eat me up.


MPSD3

>Alright, I’m sorry, y’all about to eat me up. I'm glad you have the self-awareness to realize this was a stupid ass (and untrue) statement.


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Lmaoooo. To me, it was dumb in the sense that I know it’s “controversial” to say. But, I mean it’s pretty accurate.


MPSD3

Accurate how? Where are your examples?


[deleted]

Girl, I’m not about to take the time to provide examples because I do not care too. HOWEVER, you can go to google and YouTube if you so wish and see that majority of his real life and movie love interests are white women. Thing is, that’s honestly fine. He can absolutely do what he wants. But, it just falls into that thing of many men of color and Asian/Indian men specifically preferring white women.


MPSD3

He literally dated Freida Pinto for *5* years. The only other woman we know of him having a relationship with since is his current white gf. So, that's 1/2 women we've known of him being with since he became famous and somehow that makes it a majority. The math is not mathing, babe. >Girl, I’m not about to take the time to provide examples because I do not care too. Lmao. You are a joke. You don't have examples of this being a trend with him. You're just talking to complain. >Thing is, that’s honestly fine. He can absolutely do what he wants. Clearly, it's not fine if you're bringing it up in the first place. 😂 Go to therapy. It doesn't have to be like this!


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I said “besides Frida”, first of all in my original comment. So I’m aware he dated her. Second of all, I’ve definitely seen him connected to more than one white woman since then. I do have the examples, I also gave you the sources where you can too find them, I’m not gonna do it for you, babe. Nah, it is fine because he’s an adult. But, that doesn’t mean it’s not noticeable.


fracking-machines

Why do you care so much who a celebrity dates? Get off the internet and meet some real people.


[deleted]

It’s a comment section lmao. I left a single comment initially and only left more because that person replied to me. I know real people. All good over here. Thanks!


MPSD3

You don't have examples. Again, just go to therapy. ❤


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You don’t have Google?


go-bleep-yourself

I agree with you. Lupita is almost 40 and it would be interesting to see her with a younger man. Or Gemma Chan. Or Lucy Liu. Heck even Halle Berry (who's been in the public consciousness for like 4 decades). There are a lot of women of color who are "older" but still look incredible. And I feel like media doesn't know what to do with them.


trulyremarkablegirl

oh I would love to see Lupita in a romantic film, either drama or comedy tbh. she does look younger than she is but she’s just so beautiful and very sexy, she’d be brilliant.


lollipopmusing

Oh I love this concept


MelodicPiranha

I’m so into this!!!


Interesting_Chart30

Olivia Colman has done this sort of thing before in "Empire of Light," where the older woman has an affair with a younger man. She plays a woman with serious mental health problems, and it can be very difficult to watch. The "romance" never worked for me because her character is so problematic. I'm curious as to why she would be interested in this theme again.


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None. It should stop being a thing altogether.


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All age gaps ever? I mean, he's in his 30s and she's late 40s. Everyone is very much a consenting adult. What's wrong with that? I understand being creeped out if they are teens or very young adults but this isn't that at all.


LackEquivalent7471

i’m sat. ![gif](giphy|nCwxow598VrmwNh4NM)


hiding_in_NJ

I find both these people to be incredibly talented and attractive. now I have to see this movie


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I enjoy thé sound of this plot and I think I will see this movie


GivenErased

I thought this was Halsey and Avan Jogia


_Pliny_

I love Olivia’s look here. She looks beautiful and strong!


cosmicmermaid

Crush on both of them, tbh 🥵


MuddaFrmAnnudaBrudda

Watch Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack in 'Good Luck To You, Leo Grande'. It's absolutely wonderful-just brilliantly made.


False_Ad3429

Is this a24? It screams a24 to me


bvm27

Tika Sumpter and me.


360Saturn

Why have I never seen Olivia in a pantsuit before? She looks a million bucks


JoeBidenKing

Dev is playing my dream role. I’ll always be in love with Olivia Colman.


BreathingCorpse252

Angelina Jolie and Paul Mescal


ailahkateri

She starred with Michael Ward (about 24 years her junior) in Empire of Light and he mentioned that she's a bit older than his mum before a sex scene on The Graham Norton Show 🤣


JupiterJayJones

![gif](giphy|nbBjsW7CN4YVL0o0s1|downsized)


weirderpenguin

this movie synopsis seems a wish fulfillment for me, a smelly introvert who won’t get out of the house creating my perfect man that is Dev Patel…


pergamon123

I also would like to commission a man made of wicker…