Vanessa Kirby Books New Role in 'The Son' With Hugh Jackman

Vanessa Kirby‘s calendar is filling up as she’s joined The Son movie opposite Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern.

Variety is reporting that the 33-year-old actress will play Hugh‘s partner in the pic.

The Son will center on Peter (Jackman) as his busy life with new partner Emma and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate (Dern) turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas.

The young man is is troubled, distant and angry, playing truant from school for months.

Peter strives to be a better father, searching to help his son with those intimate and instinctive moments of family happiness. But the weight of Nicholas’ condition sets the family on a dangerous course.

This will be Florian Zeller’s follow up to his Oscar-winning feature debut The Father, which earned him and Christopher Hampton the best adapted screenplay Oscar. Anthony Hopkins also won the Best Actor award for the movie.

Filming is expected to start in the coming weeks.

Earlier this year, Vanessa was spotted house hunting!