Scott's aptitude for playing disreputable or villainous roles was confirmed by his casting opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock as Jim Moriarty. The role of Catherine's father, the ineffectual, bumbling Lord Rollo, is played by Andrew Scott. A further voice role in Aardman Animation's long-awaited sequel to 2000's stop-motion hit Chicken Run, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, will follow early next year on Netflix. Since her departure from the series in 2019, she has been in constant demand, with supporting roles in World War Two drama Resistance, the BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, and as the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey in the Starz Tudor period drama Becoming Elizabeth earlier this year, in addition to voice work on last year's Hilda and the Mountain King. Heading the cast as Catherine is Bella Ramsey, an English actor whose first screen role was Lyanna Mormont in Game of Thrones. Nevertheless, the weird amalgam of modern anachronism and medieval social fabric works splendidly on its own terms and ensures audiences don't hear much in the way of thees, thous, and thines throughout. The soundtrack - a mixture of orchestral work and covers of pop songs by Britpop and other assorted artists - alongside the casting of the perennially affected Russell Brand shows just how disinterested Dunham is in making the film into a simple period piece.

The film looks lavish but dispenses with notions of historical authenticity in favor of laying on the comedy with distinctly modern-sounding sensibilities and dialog. Cue the arrival of a succession of suitors of all shapes, sizes, and abilities, as well as a flurry of increasingly outlandish attempts by Catherine to convince each in turn that she is not the sort of girl they'd want to have for a wife. To retrieve the family fortunes, Catherine's father decides to do just that and announces that suitable bachelors may ask for his daughter's hand in marriage. The fly in the ointment is that her parents, minor nobles, happen to be short of cash. Related: Lena Dunham's Sharp Stick Trailer Sends Body-Positive Message She reads and writes, is going through puberty, and is indignant at the prospect of being married off to a faceless stranger. Catherine - the 'Birdy' nickname refers to her pets - lives in the English village of Stonebridge with her older brothers and parents. Catherine Called Birdy is a coming-of-age film set in thirteenth-century England.

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