If you’ve seen her as Ilsa Faust in the recent Mission: Impossible movies, you know Rebecca Ferguson is not to be trifled with – she’ll bump with you off with a quick leg snap before you even know what’s happened. For her latest role she’s leaning further into that dangerous quality, now with added mystical powers. The Kid Who Would Be King, the new film from Attack The Block director Joe Cornish, offers a knowing, modern take on Arthurian legend, with Ferguson glooping it up as sorceress Morgana.
Here’s an exclusive new image of Ferguson in character, as seen in the new Fantastic Beasts issue of Empire.
“She’s been dormant, sleeping under the soil of Britain for centuries,” Cornish told Empire. “She’s been waiting for Britain to become lost and leaderless and divided. She’s decided that the time is right for her to reclaim what she thinks is hers.”
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