Florence Pugh to star in Netflix’s new psychological thriller ‘The Wonder’
The Wonder, based on the book of the same name by Emma Donoghue.As shared by The Hollywood Reporter, Pugh will play the lead role of Lib Wright, an English nurse who, in 1859, travels to a small Irish village where she witnesses an 11-year-old girl live for months without food.As the girl, named Anna O’Donnell, begins to attract attention from the media and tourists, she and Wright, as Donoghue describes on her website, “transform each other’s lives”, telling the story of “a psychological thriller” and “of love pitted against evil”.Netflix’s adaptation of the book is currently in pre-production and has no known filming or release date at the time of writing.