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Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet to Play 19th-Century Lovers in Ammonite

Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet to Play 19th-Century Lovers in Ammonite

Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan

The film featuring Ronan, the sought-after star of Mary Queen of Scots, and Oscar winner Winslet, who's played queer twice before, begins production next year.

It's been a good year for period pieces about queer women withThe Favourite, Colette, and Lizzie. Now it's been announced that the sought-after Mary Queen of Scots star Saoirse Ronan and Oscar winner Kate Winslet will play lovers in the slightly May/December romance Ammonite from Francis Lee, the writer and director of the critically acclaimed gay-themed God's Own Country.

While there's not yet much out there about the plot, the story takes place in a coastal town in the United Kingdom circa 1820. It tells the story of a romance between Mary Anning, a paleontologist, and a "London woman of means to whom she must unexpectedly play nursemaid," according to Deadline.

Ronan is the Oscar-nominated star of Brooklyn and Lady Bird who currently stars as Mary Stuart opposite Margot Robbie's Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of Scots. Winslet, an Oscar winner for The Reader, has previously played queer roles in her debut film, Heavenly Creatures (1994), and in the 2001 biopic Iris, about the bisexual writer Iris Murdoch.

Production on Ammonite begins in March, according to Deadline.

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Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.