Marisa Abela’s performance as Amy Winehouse in Back to Black didn’t earn her a lot of praise last year. Personally, I thought she was solid in an incredibly challenging role. Abela proved her talents more recently in Steven Soderbergh’s spy film Black Bag, and now she’s set to take on something much larger. THR reports Abela has landed a role in David Leitch’s long-developing Highlander reboot for Amazon MGM.
Henry Cavill and Russell Crowe are already aboard Highlander, a reboot of the franchise that launched in 1986. The story follows a race of immortal warriors who battle it out until only one of them remains.
With Cavill as Connor McLeod and Crowe as his mentor, Ramirez, Abela will play a new character, an immortal and Connor’s former flame.
This will be the biggest film yet for Abela. She had a small role in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and she won a BAFTA for her performance on HBO’s hit series, Industry.
Filming on Highlander begins in September. You can check out an earlier interview I had with Marisa Abela below.
