‘I’ll Play Mother’: Psychological Horror Starring Susanne Wuest And ‘Doctor Who’ Actor Jo Martin Starts Production
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Cameras have started rolling on the psychological horror pic I’ll Play Mother from The Number 44, the UK-based production house co-founded by filmmaker Ben Charles Edwards (A Bird Flew In).
The film stars Susanne Wuest (Goodnight Mummy), Jo Martin (Doctor Who, Back to Life), and Shubham Saraf (A Suitable Boy), with Brad Watson (The Siege) directing from a screenplay by Libby Adam.
Billed as a “twisted psychological horror about the relentless and unending paranoia of parenthood,” the film follows two children who are placed into the care system after the death of their birth mother.
At this point, they realize there is something sinister at play. The full synopsis reads: Michelle (Susanne Wuest) and Cyrus (Shubham Saraf) have spent the past two years having every minute detail of their personal lives inspected, dissected, and judged.
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