Richard E. Grant and Claire Foy are two actors with a little experience when it comes to playing folk living in grand, secret-filled, somewhat problematic big houses. Richard E. Grant has Saltburn, Death Of A Unicorn‘s Leopold estate, and Gosford Park in his housing portfolio already, while Foy’s got both Buckingham (The Crown) and Hampton Court Palace (Wolf Hall) in her back pocket. Now, in writer-director Peter Glanz’s darkly comic period piece Savage House, the duo are teaming up to play powdered wig wearing Sir Chauncey and corset rocking Lady Savage, a pair of bourgeois rotters looking to get ahead in 18th century England. Check out the trailer below;
Buckets of excrement, wonderfully decadent finery, and Richard E. Grant calling Claire Foy a “dirty little piggy” as she sucks her finger — what more could one possibly ask for from a historical satire called Savage House? Oh, some actual inkling of the plot? Well we can give you that — don’t worry. The official synopsis for the movie reads: “Set against the backdrop of eighteenth century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – this is a timely and darkly satirical story of Sir Chauncey Savage (Grant) and Lady Savage (Foy) and their blind pursuit of a better life. It is not without a tinge of irony that their family name is the Savages, for this is a Savage House indeed. Filled with duels, decadence, and bloodshed, this is a madcap play on class and power.”
Also co-starring Bel Powley (A Small Light), Jack Farthing (The Lost Daughter), Kila Lord Cassidy (The Wonder), Richard McCabe (Napoleon), Vicki Pepperdine (Poor Things) and Pip Torrens (The Iron Lady) — aka a veritable who’s who of “Oh yeah, it’s him/her off of such-and-such historical drama” — there’s no shortage of talent behind Savage House. And, what’s more, we do love a good trouncing of the historical and enduring insanity of the class divide. So with that being said, consider us seated and ready if not to eat the rich, then to at least eat popcorn while laughing at them, when Paramount Pictures’ Savage House hits cinemas in June.
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