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James McAvoy, Sharon Horgan Star in Lockdown Movie "Together"


Fri 14 May 2021 | 02:15 PM
Yara Sameh

James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan have shot a secret coronavirus romance drama entitled "Together".

The drama movie is written by Dennis Kelly and directed by Stephen Daldry.

Production kicked off in the UK. from the first days of the coronavirus lockdown in March 2020 until the present day.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"]James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan in James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan in "Together"[/caption]

The plot follows a family who found a way to survive together, and a husband and wife who hate each other but are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the lockdown.

Horgan plays a charity worker at a refugee charity, while McAvoy plays a self-employed man who runs a boutique computing consultancy. The couple shares a 10-year-old son, who is the one thing that keeps them together, until lockdown.

It is produced by Guy Heeley and Sonia Friedman for BBC Film and BBC 2, with Endeavor Content handling worldwide sales outside the U.K.