WHITE Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood had landed a top film role alongside Hollywood royalty Angelina Jolie.
The British actress is set to play a reluctant bank robber — with Oscar-winner Ange, 49, as one of her accidental hostages.
The project — an adaptation of best-selling novel Anxious People — is expected to prove popular among movie executives at this week's Cannes Film Festival in the south of France.
Marc Forster, behind the camera for James Bond film Quantum of Solace, is lined up to direct.
Anxious People is a 2019 book by the Swedish author Fredrik Backman.
It is being adapted by screenwriter David Magee — who worked on box office hits Life of Pi and Finding Neverland.
A Swedish telly series was aired on Netflix in 2021
Aimee, 31, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, is one of the country's rising stars thanks to her stand-out role in the latest series of HBO's comedy-drama The White Lotus.
She previously won a Bafta for Best Female Comedy Performance in the Netflix series Sex Education.
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