TheWrap out of TIFF said the film was a reflection on her own parenthood journey and that it was inspired by “the massive identity shift that happens when you become a mom.”“I just wanted to make a film about the highs and the lows, and push the experience out to the most extreme version of itself,” she told TheWrap out of the festival. “That’s what I like to do as an artist: take a little glimmer and light a bonfire with it.”A page fifty-four pictures and Point Productions production, “Baby Ruby” is directed and written by Bess Wohl and produced by Alex Saks, Lauren Beveridge, Brett Beveridge and Jeffrey Penman.
In addition to Merlant and Harington, the cast includes Meredith Hagner and Jayne Atkinson.“Bess Wohl shows how terrifying the pursuit of a ‘perfect life’ can be,” Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles said in a statement. “Noémie Merlant convincingly inhabits the role of a woman who has it all.”The deal was negotiated by Magnolia EVP Dori Begley and SVP of Acquisitions John Von Thaden, with Glen Basner at FilmNation Entertainment.Deadline first reported the news.
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