{"id":474813,"date":"2026-02-18T00:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474813\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:25:08","slug":"sydney-sweeney-pic-customs-of-the-country-adds-leo-woodall-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474813\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney Pic &#8216;Customs of The Country&#8217; Adds Leo Woodall To Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/leo-woodall\/\" id=\"auto-tag_leo-woodall\" data-tag=\"leo-woodall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Woodall<\/a> is set to co-star opposite <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sydney-sweeney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sydney-sweeney\" data-tag=\"sydney-sweeney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Sweeney<\/a> in a movie adaptation of Edith Wharton\u2019s classic novel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/custom-of-the-country\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Custom of the Country<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/studiocanal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Studiocanal<\/a>\u00a0and Charles Finch\u2019s Rabbit\u2019s Foot Films.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/josie-rourke\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josie Rourke<\/a>\u00a0will direct after adapting the script from Wharton\u2019s novel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSweeney plays Undine Spragg, a fiercely ambitious woman from the Midwest, who strives for the social heights of turn of the century New York. Armed with beauty, daring\/hustle and sheer force of will\/unwavering ambition, Undine battles an entrenched elite, fearlessly courting controversy, until love and fortune align.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSweeney, Charles Finch, Monumental Pictures\u2019 Owen and Studiocanal will produce. Studiocanal will fully finance, releasing theatrically in all its territories (the UK, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Poland and Benelux) and launching worldwide sales at European Film Market in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNina Gold is the casting director and is in the process of building the ensemble around Sweeney.\u00a0EVP Global Production Ron Halpern, U.S. Chief Creative Officer Shana Eddy-Grouf\u00a0and VP Development and Production Isobel Carter are overseeing for Studiocanal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBest known for his roles in season two of The White Lotus and Bridget Jones: Mad About A Boy, Woodall most recently earned strong reviews for his supporting role in James Vanderbilt\u2019s film Nuremberg alongside Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, and John Slattery. Upcoming, he will star alongside Rachel Weisz in the Netflix limited series Vladimir which bows on March 6, and he\u2019ll lead the Black Bear Pictures film Tuner, which comes out this spring, alongside Dustin Hoffman and Havana Rose Liu. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe is repped by B-Side Management, WME, Anonymous Content and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson &amp; Christopher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Leo Woodall is set to co-star opposite Sydney Sweeney in a movie adaptation of Edith Wharton\u2019s classic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,219976,88,86189,7105],"class_list":["post-474813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-customs-of-the-country","tag-entertainment","tag-leo-woodall","tag-sydney-sweeney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}