Cate Blanchett's 'Sweetsick' Movie Adds Spike Fearn To Cast

EXCLUSIVE: Alice Birch’s directorial debut Sweetsick starring Cate Blanchett at Searchlight Pictures has added Alien: Romulus actor Spike Fearn to its cast.

The movie follows a mercurial woman (Blanchett) with a strange and piercing gift – the ability to see what others most intimately need, often at great personal cost – who sets out on a journey home. More actors are expected to board the project.

Birch is also writing, with Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Theo Barrowclough producing for House Productions ( Conclave, Mint, The Wonder ); Blanchett under her Dirty Films banner; and Lee Groombridge.

EPs are Farhana Bhula, Director of Film4; and Alice Whittemore, Development & Production Executive of Film4; Zoe Edwards, Harry Dixon and James Green for House Productions;