EXCLUSIVE: Fast-rising British actor Jack Lowden has been set as the male lead in Working Title and Focus Features’ Mary Queen Of Scots. Lowden will take on the role of Lord Darnley opposite Saoirse Ronan, who is playing the eponymous royal, and Margot Robbie as her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
Stage director Josie Rourke is helming the film which is penned by House Of Cards creator Beau Willimon and based on the 2004 biography by John Guy, The True Life of Mary Stuart…
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