Emilia Clarke is set to star in an upcoming film project titled An Ideal Wife, and she will take in the role of Constance Lloyd, Oscar Wilde’s wife. The film will tell the story of “Oscar Wilde’s marriage to Lloyd, an author and activist, and the sexual awakening she experienced after she learned that Wilde was homosexual.”
The movie will be directed by Good Luck to You, Leo Grande director Sophie Hyde. I enjoy most of the projects that Clarke has been involved with, but this is a different kind of project for her. I’m sure she’ll be great! This will be her first film project since the 2019 holiday romcom Last Christmas directed by Paul Feig.
Lloyd died in 1898 at the age of 40 while living in exile in Genoa, Italy, with her two sons. “They had left London and changed their surname to Holland to distance themselves from the scandal of Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment for homosexual acts in 1895.”
Over the course of her life, Lloyd published two children’s books and contributed to newspapers and journals. She was also a campaigner in the progressive dress reform movement.