“Crazy Rich Asians” star will play the insensitive Mr. Elliot alongside Dakota Johnson
Jeremy Fuster | May 5, 2021 @ 10:45 AM
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 11: Henry Golding speaks onstage during the Special NY Screening of "The Gentlemen" at the Alamo Drafthouse on January 11, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for STXfilms)
Henry Golding has signed on to play Mr. Elliot in “Persuasion,” Netflix and MRC’s upcoming modern-day adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel.
The adaptation will star Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot, a woman struggling against the constraints of her arrogant family whose wealth is rapidly disappearing, but finds herself getting a second chance at love when Frederick Wentworth, the man whom Anne fell in love with many years ago but let her family come between them, returns to her life. Golding will play the stuck-up patriarch of the Elliot family.