Deck the halls with “Deadly Attraction” posters and begin counting down the times to Paul Feig‘s “The Housemaid,” a slippery suburban thriller starring Amanda Seyfried as a creepy wealthy woman and Sydney Sweeney as her lamb led to slaughter via a working-class job. From Lionsgate, the upcoming launch adapts creator Freida McFadden’s best-selling novel and is predicted in theaters December 19.
“The Housemaid” casts the Oscar-nominated Seyfried as Nina Winchester, a buttoned-up house owner who appears to be hiding greater than your common yuppy secret. Sweeney performs Mille, a cleaner-for-hire who, even sporting licensed “She’s All That” glasses, seems just a little too scorching for a live-in housemaid place with the immediately intense Nina and her overly slick husband, Andrew (Brandon Sklenar).
Seyfried has sustained her energy on the field workplace ever since “Mamma Mia!” made her a family identify. Following her putting portrayal of convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes for Hulu’s “The Dropout,” this darker flip from Seyfried guarantees to escalate the woman-on-woman crime of Feig’s “A Easy Favor” duology via traditional horror film magic and an A-list pairing we haven’t seen but. An image-perfect spouse with solely a crack in her smile, Nina needs to be hiding one thing — however why and what’s it?
She’s joined by Sweeney, who’s producing extra PR controversies than performances nowadays. Nonetheless, the “Anybody However You” actress continues to entertain, for good and unhealthy, and Sweeney performs the apparent sufferer within the trailer. In fact, it’s by no means that clear-cut with Feig, who likes to makes adjustments when he’s adapting novels, and if Sweeney’s half on “Euphoria” taught us something, it’s that audiences love speaking about objectively flawed-yet-effeverscent ladies.
If the story is complicated sufficient, “The Housemaid” might be a pointy pivot for Sweeney. Channeling perceived volatility into plausible sweetness is not any simple activity, however there’s cause to imagine the star of “Immaculate” may do it. “The Housemaid” seems like a mix of stylish satire and psychological warfare. Sidestepping martinis and homicide for a shiny puzzle field that appears like supernatural eat-the-rich epic — possibly? — Feig will proceed his meditation on feminine friendship in theaters this December.
Watch the trailer for “The Housemaid” beneath.
