EXCLUSIVE:DarkstarLouis Hofmann, one of Germanys most in-demand young actors, is joining Bella Ramsey (The Last Of Us), Dominic West (The Crown), Ruth Negga (Loving), Fiona Shaw (Harry Potter) in period dramaMonstrous Beauty, which HanWay is selling at theCannesmarket ahead of a planned September shoot.
Ramsey, who shot to fame as the precocious Lady of Bear Island inGOTand is coming off HBOs blockbuster hitThe Last Of Us, is heading back to court but this time as an aspiring playwright in the court of King Charles II who suffers from a rare condition that means she is entirely covered in hair.
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Hofmann will play Vale inMonstrous Beauty, an average actor and extremely skilled lover by trade but its his undeniable beauty that attracts Barbaras (Ramsey) attention and he quickly becomes an object of infatuation and her muse.
Heads of department onMonstrous Beautyinclude Laura Bellingham as director of photography (Amulet), Francesca Massariol as production designer (The Power), Annie Symons as costume designer (Great Expectations), Nadia Stacey as hair and make-up designer (The Favourite)and Sarah Angliss (Amulet) as composer.
Casting is by Gemma Sykes (Devs), and prosthetics and special make-up comes from Millennium FX (The Toxic Avenger).
Hofmanns previous credits include Netflix hitDarkand Oscar nominated featureLand Of Mine, which garnered the now 25 year-old actor a Best Supporting Actor win at the Bodil Awards in 2016.
He will next be seen leading Netflixs anticipated limited seriesAll The Light We Cannot Seefrom Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) and Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name, and will also soon star in the Apple TV+ seriesMasters Of The Air, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.
Hofmann is represented by United Agents in London, Players Agentur Management in Germany and attorney Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.
