Emma Thompson, Anna Friel and Christopher Eccleston will star in Hear Me Roar, a drama about a landmark legal case.
According to Deadline, the cast has been confirmed for Hear Me Roar, a drama about a landmark legal case. This is now being turned into a British feature film, and the synopsis for it reads as follows.
Hear Me Roar follows the true story of Elizabeth Bellinger, who became one of the few transgender people in Britain to get married in the 1980s. She kept this ceremony secret from almost everyone until 2000 when she launched a campaign to have her marriage to Michael Bellinger legally recognized and the case went to the courts. The drama starts with her meeting with barrister Ashley Bayston, who co-wrote the feature with lead writer Lisa McMullin, and charts the resulting complex legal obstacle course they undertook over the next three years.
Emma Thompson plays the judge in the case, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss. Anna Friel has been cast as Bayston, Rebecca Root is Bellinger and Christopher Eccleston is her husband. The cast also includes Julian Ovenden.
Amy Coop with direct the film from a screenplay by Ashley Bayston – the real barrister who worked on the case – and Lisa McMullin, who has written several audio adventures for Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor in the Big Finish Doctor Who range.
Thompson said: “I’m weeping like a baby, it’s so moving and powerful and funny. It’s a great story and script with wonderful characters – I just loved it and it moved me deeply. I think it’s both fascinating and profoundly meaningful and essential”.
Coop added: “It’s a privilege to be working with such a great team to tell this incredible story, an overlooked part of modern British History that represented a seismic shift for LGBTQ+ people”.
Thompson is currently preparing to take her Nanny McPhee franchise to the West End stage, while Eccleston will next be seen in Netflix drama Out of the Dust.
