On the heels of her breakout performance in The White Lotus, Aimee Lou Wood has now joined director Marc Forster's adaptation of Anxious People. Based on the Fredrik Backman novel, the film casts Wood as a robber who (unwittingly) takes strangers hostage after a bank heist gone wrong.

The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood will join Angelina Jolie in Anxious People, a feature adaptation of author Fredrik Backman's namesake novel.Deadline confirmed Wood has been cast as the story's catalyst and reluctant villain. David Magee developed the screenplay with Marc Forster set to direct; both have previously collaborated in the 2022 adaptation of Backman's A Man Called Otto. The film is currently looking for domestic and international distributors at Cannes, via WME Independent and Black Bear Pictures.

Per synopsis, Anxious People starts on "the day before Christmas Eve, [when] investment banker Zara (Jolie) begrudgingly finds herself mingling with a...