Emma Thompson, Anna Friel and Christopher Eccleston are aboard Hear Me Roar, a film telling the story of a transgender girl who took on the British authorities in a authorized battle over her marriage.
Amy Coop‘s pic tells the story of Elizabeth Bellinger, who grew to become one of many few transgender folks in Britain to get married within the Eighties. She stored this ceremony secret from virtually everybody till 2000 when she launched a marketing campaign to have her marriage to Michael Bellinger legally acknowledged and the case went to the courts. The drama begins along with her assembly with barrister Ashley Bayston, who co-wrote the characteristic with lead author Lisa McMullin, and charts the ensuing complicated authorized impediment course they undertook over the following three years.
Two-time Academy Award winner Thompson performs the choose within the case, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss. Friel has been solid as Bayston, Rebecca Root is Bellinger and Eccleston is her husband, whereas the pic additionally stars Julian Ovenden (Bridgerton).
Thompson mentioned: “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.”
Producers are Darren Stuart, whose credit embrace Capital Punishment and the documentary Stone By Stone, and David Nichols (Everest, The Tourist, William Tell).