{"id":36918,"date":"2025-09-22T19:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/36918\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T19:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:08:06","slug":"cate-blanchetts-sweetsick-movie-adds-spike-fearn-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/36918\/","title":{"rendered":"Cate Blanchett&#8217;s &#8216;Sweetsick&#8217; Movie Adds Spike Fearn To Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Alice Birch\u2019s directorial debut <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sweetsick\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sweetsick\" data-tag=\"sweetsick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sweetsick<\/a> starring <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cate-blanchett\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cate-blanchett\" data-tag=\"cate-blanchett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cate Blanchett<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/searchlight-pictures\/\" id=\"auto-tag_searchlight-pictures\" data-tag=\"searchlight-pictures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Searchlight Pictures<\/a> has added Alien: Romulus actor <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/spike-fearn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_spike-fearn\" data-tag=\"spike-fearn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spike Fearn<\/a> to its cast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe movie\u00a0follows a mercurial woman (Blanchett) with a strange and piercing gift \u2013 the ability to see what others most intimately need, often at great personal cost \u2013 who sets out on a journey home. More actors are expected to board the project. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBirch is also writing, with Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell\u00a0and\u00a0Theo Barrowclough\u00a0producing for House Productions\u00a0(Conclave, Mint, The Wonder); Blanchett\u00a0under her Dirty Films banner; and\u00a0Lee Groombridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEPs are Farhana Bhula,\u00a0Director of Film4; and\u00a0Alice Whittemore, Development &amp; Production Executive of Film4;\u00a0Zoe Edwards, Harry Dixon\u00a0and\u00a0James Green\u00a0for House Productions;\u00a0and\u00a0Danny Cohen\u00a0and\u00a0Len Blavatnik\u00a0for Access Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFearn can also be seen in James L. Brooks\u2019 Ella McCay, out on December 12, as well as Alicia MacDonald\u2019s Finding Emily from Focus Features. The actor is repped by UTA, B-Side Management, Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample &amp; Klein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSearchlight VP Development &amp; Production\u00a0Pete Spencer\u00a0and Creative Executive\u00a0Cameron Chidsey\u00a0are overseeing the project, reporting in to Production &amp; Development Heads\u00a0Katie Goodson-Thomas\u00a0and\u00a0DanTram Nguyen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSearchlight has the Bradley Cooper-directed movie Is This Thing On? starring Cooper, Will Arnett, <br \/>Ciar\u00e1n Hinds, Amy Sedaris and Laura Dern, which is closing the New York Film Festival on October 10. Pic\u2019s blurb: As their marriage unravels, Alex (Arnett) faces middle age and divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while his wife Tess (Dern) confronts sacrifices made for their family, forcing them to navigate co-parenting and identities. The movie opens limited December 19. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Alice Birch\u2019s directorial debut Sweetsick starring Cate Blanchett at Searchlight Pictures has added Alien: Romulus actor Spike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[800,321,93,61,60,23104,28488,28489],"class_list":["post-36918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-cate-blanchett","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-searchlight-pictures","tag-spike-fearn","tag-sweetsick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}