MagpieTrailer: Daisy Ridley Gets Twisted in a Dark Thriller About a Fractured Marriage (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Daisy Ridleyis at the center of an unraveling marriage in her neo-noir thrillerMagpie.

Married couple Anette (Ridley) and Ben (Shazad Latif) see their lives “begin to fracture when their daughter is cast alongside a glamorous movie star, Alicia (Matilda Lutz),” a synopsis teases. “As Anette’s suspicions of Ben’s infatuation with Alicia intensify, their secrets and lies threaten to burst to the surface and destroy them all.”

Ridley, 32, tells PEOPLE that the inspiration behind the idea “came initially from the relationship I had with the little girl who played my daughter in a film.”

Daisy Ridley, Hiba Ahmed and Matilda Lutz in “Magpie”.Courtesy Rob Baker Ashton

Courtesy Rob Baker Ashton

“It is amazing to see it come to life,” she adds. “We have made a film that we love, with characters and relationships I believe will resonate, and a thrill ride that I think audiences will really enjoy.”

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Daisy Ridley in “Magpie”.Courtesy Rob Baker Ashton

“It is a film to relish, and we can’t wait for the post-credit discussions,” she adds.

Courtesy of Shout! Studios

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Director Yates says, “I am hugely excited to share Magpie with audiences in cinemas across the world and hope they enjoy the wild ride into the darkness of the human heart. It was a great pleasure to direct the brilliant, luminous Daisy Ridley in screenwriter Tom Bateman’s twisted noir.”

Magpieopens at Village East in New York, Los Angeles and additional select U.S. cities Oct. 25.

source: people.com