Keira Knightley and Luke Thompson are starring in a new play together!
The 41-year-old actress and the 37-year-old Bridgerton star have been tapped to lead a stage adaptation of the 2006 Oscar-winning movie The Lives of Others, according to Deadline.
Also starring in the production is Stephen Dillane.
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Robert Icke is set to direct, and worked closely with the original movie’s writer and director Florian Henckle von Donnersmarck on the play, which is slated to open on October 14th at the Adelphi Theatre. It will run through January 9, 2027.
The play is “a potent tale about a playwright, Georg Dreyman (Thompson), his actress-girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland (Knightley) and Gerd Wiesler (Dillane), a master Stasi interrogator instructed to bug — every which way — the couple’s apartment.”
This will mark Keira‘s first return to the stage in over ten years. She was last on Broadway in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Thérèse Raquin in 2015. Luke was last on stage in 2024, starring in a production of Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, while Stephen last starred in a stage production of When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other in 2019.
In case you missed it, earlier this year it was announced that Keira will be starring in an upcoming dark comedy film.
