Following the emotional angst of Normal People, Daisy Edgar-Jones dived into a brush with a handsome serial killer in Fresh and a conflicted, violent Mormon family in Under The Banner Of Heaven. You'd forgive for seeking out something a little less... dangerous, but here she is, plunged back into the heart of a story about abandonment and murder. The new trailer for Where The Crawdads Sing is online.
Adapted from Delia Owens' bestseller by director Olivia Newman and writer Lucy Alibar, Where The Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya (Edgar-Jones), an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina.
For years, rumours of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world; but when one of them is found dead, she is immediately cast by the community as the main suspect. As the case unfolds, the verdict as to what actually happened becomes increasingly unclear, threatening to reveal the many secrets that lay within the marsh...
With Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson and David Strathairn also among the cast, Where The Crawdads Sing will be in UK cinemas a little later than originally planned, landing on 26 August.