Key Highlights
- “Undine Spragg is the original dangerous woman.
- Edith Wharton’s character has forever fascinated, seduced and infuriated readers,” Rourke said in a release Wednesday announcing the project.
- “The Custom of the Country was Wharton’s great American novel and Undine Spragg sweeps across America and through Europe at top speed, during a time of immense economic and social change.
- The book whistles with modernity and as I was writing this adaptation, Sydney Sweeney lived in my head as this iconic character — it’s as if Wharton sat down a century ago and wrote the role for her.
- I’m thrilled to be working with this luminous actor, Charles Finch, Alison Owen and Studiocanal to bring this novel to the screen.” Related Stories Books Upcoming Sydney Sweeney Movies From ‘Christy’ To ‘The Housemaid’ News Sydney Sweeney Teases ‘Euphoria’ Season 3: “Cassie Is Crazy” Sweeney plays Undine, “a fiercely ambitious woman from the Midwest who strives for the social heights of turn-of-the-century New York,” per the logline.
