Aw man, you remember the reaction by toxic dude bros about the ending to Barbie, where Ken and the other guys acquiesced to living in a candy-colored world dominated by women? It struck hard with a certain segment because, well, the real world is just the opposite. Guys rule everything, and based on the shape of the world right now, maybe that should change. A flipping of power dynamics is also at the core of Ladies First, a new Netflix comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike.
The film is directed by Thea Sharrock (Wicked Little Letters) from a script by Katie Silberman (Booksmart), Cinco Paul (Schmigadoon!), and Natalie Krinsky. Cohen stars as a male chauvinist ad exec who has his world turned upside down when he wakes up in a parallel reality where women are in control. Pike plays his workplace rival, who doesn’t mind throwing her weight around.
Also in the cast are Charles Dance, Emily Mortimer, Tom Davis, Richard E. Grant, and Fiona Shaw.
Netflix has already invested in this story once before, as Ladies First is a remake of the 2018 French rom-com I Am Not an Easy Man.
SYNOPSIS: A ladies man finds his life upended when he wakes up in a parallel world dominated by women. With the rules of engagement changed, he goes head-to-head with a fiery female colleague in a playful satire about what happens when the script is flipped.
Ladies First premieres on Netflix on May 22nd.
