Daniel Ings to Star in Olivia Grant's 'The Two Week Wait' (Exclusive)
Daniel Ings has joined the cast of Olivia Grant’s directorial debut, 'The Two Week Wait,' a short film exploring the mental health challenges of IVF. The project, which also stars Jessica Brown Findlay, is set to premiere at the Indy Shorts Film Festival.
Why it matters
The film highlights the growing trend of personal narratives in independent cinema focusing on the emotional toll of fertility treatments.
Fresh off the set of Star Wars: Starfighter , Daniel Ings ( A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , The Gentlemen ) has joined Jessica Brown Findlay ( Peaky Blinders , Downton Abbey ) in Olivia Grant’s directorial debut, a short film called The Two Week Wait .
Fenella Woolgar ( Call the Midwife ), Rick Warden ( Happy Valley ), and Sophie Colquhoun ( Captain America ) co-star in the project, following a woman in her late thirties (Brown Findlay), who comes up against a series of dissociative experiences as she navigates her deteriorating mental health during the rollercoaster of IVF alongside her incompetent, albeit guileless, boyfriend (Ings). Related Stories Movies Toronto-Bound 'Onwards and Sideways,' With Laura Linney and Rhys Ifans as People Being Diagnosed With Parkinson's, Gets New Images (Exclusive) TV German TV in Crosshairs After Network Cancels "Antifascist" Performance
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