'Bridgerton's' Phoebe Dynevor Faces the Cost of Success In the Trailer for Netflix Thriller 'Fair Play'
Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich in "Fair Play"
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Though we won’t see the new Duchess of Hastings when period drama Bridgerton returns for its third season, star Phoebe Dynevor won’t be a stranger to Netflix viewers this Fall. The actress, who played eldest daughter Daphne Bridgerton in the series’ breakout first season, is starring in the buzzy thriller Fair Play, a film about relationships, gender politics, and the misogyny at the heart of much of corporate America.
Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich (Oppenheimer) play Emily and Luke, respectively, both successful financial analysts whose steamy relationship is a secret from their colleagues and forbidden by their mutual employer. But when one of them gets an unexpected promotion, the fallout threatens to tear apart more than their recent engagement.
As Emily works to prove herself in a male-dominated world and Luke struggles with jealousy over his fiancee’s success, things between the pair take a dark and potentially dangerous turn as their relationship is pushed to the brink. As the two seem to consider turning on one another explores the destructive gender dynamics and unsettling boundaries of ambition in a rapidly changing world.
“It was a story that was burning inside of me and a story I couldn’t not tell,” director Chloe Dumont told Netflix’s Tudum in an interview earlier this year. “I wanted to reckon with some unresolved feelings I had in the past, specifically dating men who I felt were threatened by either my ambition or any little bits of accomplishments. These dynamics should no longer be normalized.”
Here's the film's logline.
An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel far more than their recent engagement.
Eddie Marsan (The Thief, His Wife, and the Canoe), Rich Sommer (Minx), and Sebastian De Souza (The Great) also star. The film marks Domont's feature directorial debut after helming episodes of both Billions and Ballers, which explore similar themes of excess, corruption, and greed.
Fair Play debuted to rave reviews at this year's Sundance Film Festival, resulting in a bidding war ending with Netflix snagging distribution rights for $20 million in the biggest deal of the event.
The film will head to the Toronto International Film Festival this Fall before premiering in select theaters on September 29. It will stream on Netflix beginning Friday, October 13.
