{"id":359804,"date":"2026-03-26T21:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/359804\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T21:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:06:08","slug":"wuthering-heights-breakout-alison-oliver-joins-bad-bridgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/359804\/","title":{"rendered":"Wuthering Heights Breakout Alison Oliver Joins Bad Bridgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFresh off her breakout work in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/wuthering-heights\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wuthering-heights_1\" data-tag=\"wuthering-heights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wuthering Heights<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/alison-oliver\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alison-oliver_1\" data-tag=\"alison-oliver\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alison Oliver<\/a> is reteaming with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/luckychap\/\" id=\"auto-tag_luckychap_1\" data-tag=\"luckychap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LuckyChap<\/a> to star in the period revenge thriller Bad Bridgets.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Oliver is replacing Daisy Edgar Jones (Twisters) in the feature that is written and will be directed by Rich Peppiatt, the filmmaker behind the BAFTA-lauded Kneecap. Jones is said to have stepped aside due to scheduling conflicts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEmilia Jones remains on board to star in the project, which is being produced by LuckyChap, the banner run by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerly, Josey McNamara, and Milan Popelka; and Coup d\u2019Etat, Peppiatt\u2019s production banner.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The script was inspired by the 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe\u00a0book looked at the world of Bad Bridgets, a swath of Irish women emigrants that were deemed troublemakers, noting that for a time Irish women outnumbered Irish men in prison.\u00a0(It didn\u2019t help that some of the women locked up were in there for \u201cstubbornness.\u201d)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The project was a hot sales titles at last fall\u2019s American Film Market.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>According to the producers, the script\u2019s story begins when a mysterious letter sets a young woman on a perilous journey from famine-ravaged Ireland to 19th century New York, whereupon she joins the ranks of Irish Bridgets creating mayhem in the city.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Oscar winning production\u00a0designer\u00a0James Price and costume designer Kate Hawley are already on board.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>This will be the third time Oliver is working with LuckyChap. On top of co-starring in Wuthering Heights, which starred Robbie, the actress appeared in Saltburn, the edgy 2023 drama that LuckyChap also produced.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In Wuthering Heights, Oliver played Isabella Linton, an initially na\u00efve woman infatuated with ideas of romance whose are opened to the reality around her. Critics singled out her performance as scene-stealing.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The Irish actress also starred with Mark Ruffalo in HBO\u2019s acclaimed police drama Task.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Oliver is repped by CAA and Curtis Brown in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off her breakout work in Wuthering Heights, Alison Oliver is reteaming with LuckyChap to star in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[27129,458,146,85,46,174187,5372],"class_list":{"0":"post-359804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-alison-oliver","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-luckychap","14":"tag-wuthering-heights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}