Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts to star in Hamlet spin-off, Ophelia

They’ll both star in Ophelia, a re-imagining of the Hamlet story from an altered point of view (via Variety); Ridley will play the titular heroine, with Naomi Watts playing Hamlet’s mother Queen Gertrude.
The awakening feminist movement has brought fresh perspectives on Ophelia, and a chance to reclaim her from the tropes she’s been burdened with; now, Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts both hope to bring a new focus to the character, and to the women of Hamlet at large.…
- However, the awakening feminist movement has brought fresh perspectives on Ophelia, and a chance to reclaim her from the tropes she’s been burdened with; now, Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts both hope to bring a new focus to the character, and to the women of Hamlet at large. – Original
- The awakening feminist movement has brought fresh perspectives on Ophelia, and a chance to reclaim her from the tropes she’s been burdened with; now, Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts both hope to bring a new focus to the character, and to the women of Hamlet at large. – Simonson 9 years ago
Lost inside the profound musings of one of Shakespeare’s most iconic characters, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, the world’s never quite given Ophelia the attention she deserves.
She is inflicted not with the deep-rooted intellectual madness suffered by Hamlet, but by a madness affixed by her rejected body and unrequited passions, an erotomania.