Yet another new role for Imogen in Christopher And His Kind has been announced where she’ll be acting alongside current Doctor Who star Matt Smith. Smith will play English novelist Christopher Isherwood – Imogen Poots (28 Weeks Later, Solitary Man) stars as Jean Ross, an aspiring actress and singer who provided Christopher with the inspiration for the Sally Bowles character of Cabaret fame.

The hedonistic Berlin cabaret scene is in full swing when a young and wide-eyed Christopher Isherwood arrives in the city, unable to speak a word of German, to stay with his close friend, Auden. To Isherwood’s reserved English sensibility, the city’s thriving gay subculture is thrilling and intoxicating. But Christopher soon finds himself heartbroken after the failure of a hopeless love affair, and so sets out on a process of self-discovery.
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It sounds like a mature role for Imogen, I love the fact that she keeps to her British roots and does such projects like A Bouquet of Barbed Wire but also does more mainstream films. I’ve never come across Christopher Isherwood before and so it would be a good chance to read up on his life – it is no doubt controversial or scandelous as that is the BBC’s forte. It’s currently filming in Belfast, so it may be on British screens in autumn or winter time.

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