FORMER Love Island presenter Laura Whitmore has landed a large acting relation successful a theatre accumulation of the 2015 best-selling novel, Girl connected a Train, by Paula Hawkins.
The Irish presenter will play the main quality of Rachel Watson successful the touring production, a pistillate who ‘longs for a antithetic life, her lone flight is the cleanable mates she watches done the bid model blessed and successful love. Or truthful it appears.”
The relation volition beryllium played initially by Giovanna Fletcher, palmy podcast big and the woman of Tom Fletcher of McFly fame.
Fletcher volition statesman the relation erstwhile successful opens In January 2025 astatine the Richmond Theatre.
Then Whitmore volition instrumentality implicit the run, opening astatine the Brighton Theatre Royal successful June, earlier stopping successful Milton Keynes, Malvern, Aberdeen, Leeds, Inverness, Mold, Southampton, Belfast, Cork and finishing successful Dublin connected August 30th.
Speaking astir her caller role, Laura said:
"I work the publication erstwhile it archetypal came retired and I was obsessed by it," said Whitmore of her caller role. "I emotion it erstwhile you find a publication and each you tin deliberation astir is that story. You aftermath up a small spot earlier to work the publication and enactment up excessively precocious to decorativeness it. I americium excited to amusement radical my portrayal of Rachel adjacent summer."
Since stepping down arsenic Love Island host successful 2022, Whitmore has been trying her manus astatine acting aft starring successful the fashionable West End play: 22.22 a Ghost story. She besides landed a pb relation successful a diagnostic film: A parent for an hour, which is owed to beryllium released successful the adjacent future.
Paula Hawkin’s smash deed intelligence thriller has sold much than 2 cardinal copies wrong 2 months of being released and has present shifted much than 20 cardinal income worldwide.
In 2016 it was made into a diagnostic movie starring actress Emily Blunt who was BAFTA nominated for her show arsenic Rachel, starring alongside Justin Theroux, Luke Evans and Lisa Kudrow.