{"id":525647,"date":"2026-06-30T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/525647\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:42:08","slug":"colin-farrell-steve-coogan-charlie-heaton-join-bad-bridgets-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/525647\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Farrell, Steve Coogan, Charlie Heaton Join &#8216;Bad Bridgets&#8217; Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/colin-farrell-0\/\" id=\"auto-tag_colin-farrell-0_1\" data-tag=\"colin-farrell-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Farrell<\/a> (Banshees of Inisherin, In Bruges), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/steve-coogan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_steve-coogan_1\" data-tag=\"steve-coogan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Coogan<\/a> (Philomena, Legends), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/charlie-heaton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_charlie-heaton_1\" data-tag=\"charlie-heaton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Heaton<\/a> (Stranger Things, Industry) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/domhnall-gleeson-0\/\" id=\"auto-tag_domhnall-gleeson-0_1\" data-tag=\"domhnall-gleeson-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Domhnall Gleeson<\/a> (Ex Machina, Echo Valley) have joined the cast of Irish period revenge thriller Bad Bridgets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix_1\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> unveiled on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAlso cast for roles in the feature written, produced and directed by Kneecap director Rich Peppiatt have been Himesh Patel (Yesterday, The Odyssey), Niamh Algar (The Iris Affair, Mary &amp; George) and Simone Kirby (Kneecap, His Dark Materials).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe new names join\u00a0Emilia Jones\u00a0(CODA, Task) and\u00a0Alison Oliver\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/wuthering-heights\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wuthering Heights<\/a>) in the production from LuckyChap, run by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerly, Josey McNamara, and Milan Popelka, and Peppiatt\u2019s Coup d\u2019Etat banner. The executive producer of Bad Bridgets is C\u00e1it Collins, the cinematographer is BAFTA winner Ryan Kernaghan (Kneecap, Trespasses), production design is courtesy of Oscar and BAFTA winner James Price (Poor Things), and the costume designer is Oscar and BAFTA winner Kate Hawley (Frankenstein).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWhen a mysterious letter offering escape leads a young Irish woman to 19th-century New York, she is pulled into the unruly world of the Bridgets, where mayhem follows in her wake,\u201d reads a logline for the movie.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The script was inspired by the history book\u00a0Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem, and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women\u00a0by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick and\u00a0has been developed with the support of Belfast\u2019s Queens University. It is being produced with support from Northern Ireland Screen. The book was optioned by Peppiatt and his Kneecap producer Trevor Birney in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe book looked at the world of a swath of Irish women emigrants who were deemed troublemakers, highlighting that for a period of time, Irish women outnumbered Irish men in prison. The project was a hot sales titles at last fall\u2019s American Film Market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBad Bridgets will start shooting on location in Northern Ireland and Ireland in mid-July.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colin Farrell (Banshees of Inisherin, In Bruges), Steve Coogan (Philomena, Legends), Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things, Industry) and Domhnall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,88750,14209,818,93,61,1042,60,1868,274],"class_list":["post-525647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-charlie-heaton","tag-colin-farrell","tag-domhnall-gleeson","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-netflix","tag-steve-coogan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525647","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=525647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}