Claire Foy’s next project is taking her very far from Buckingham Palace indeed. The Emmy winner is following up her cameo in the latest season of “The Crown” with an adaptation of Melissa Broder’s 2018 novel “The Pisces,” the story of a PhD student suffering from writer’s block who becomes sexually fixated on a merman. Deadline reports that Gillian Robespierre will co-write the script with Broder and direct.
Described as “more than just a lady-fishman love story,” “The Pisces is “an exploration of the boundaries between pleasure and possession, fantasy vs. reality, and the way women choose the men in their lives.”
Foy played a young Queen Elizabeth in the first two seasons of “The Crown,” and reprised her Emmy-winning role in a cameo in an episode of the period drama’s fourth season. “The Girl in the Spider’s Web,” “Unsane,” and “First Man” are among her big screen credits.
Robespierre made her feature directorial debut with 2014 Jenny Slate-starrer “Obvious Child.” She re-teamed with Slate on 2017’s “Landline” and the comedian’s 2019 Netflix special “Stage Fright.” Robespierre’s TV directing credits include “Shrill,” “Crashing,” and “Silicon Valley.”
When we asked Robespierre her advice for other women directors, she said, “Don’t shy away from funny, complex female characters. So often they have to be watered down to be ‘likable,’ and that’s just a pile of shit. Who wants to watch perfection?”
