The Crown star Emma Cor­rin will lead a Lady Chatterley’s Lover film

While the show’s real-life inspi­ra­tions may be hav­ing a dif­fi­cult week, TV sen­sa­tion The Crown has been hav­ing a pret­ty good one, hav­ing come away from the recent Gold­en Globes with four major wins. Fourth sea­son star Emma Cor­rin earned a Best Actress in a Dra­ma Series prize for her por­tray­al of Princess Diana, and now seems primed to enjoy some of the main­stream fame that’s befall­en the show’s for­mer stars Claire Foy and Vanes­sa Kir­by.

Dead­line reports that Cor­rin has signed on to lead an upcom­ing adap­ta­tion of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, the con­tro­ver­sial romance nov­el by DH Lawrence. Those tak­en with The Crown for the escapism of its lux­u­ry and the heat­ed con­flicts con­tained there­in will pre­sum­ably also be drawn to this tale of priv­i­lege, glam­our, and furtive desire.

In the book, Lady Chat­ter­ley is a noble­woman bored with her life of un-stim­u­lat­ing glam­our and her love­less mar­riage, a 1920s Stel­la in need of her groove back. She gets it when she flouts all social con­ven­tion and dives head­long into a steamy affair with her low­er-class groundskeep­er, her wom­an­hood reignit­ed by a raw sex­u­al­i­ty that ruf­fled quite a few feath­ers upon the ini­tial publication.

The film will be direct­ed by Lau­re de Cler­mont-Ton­nerre, the emerg­ing French film­mak­er behind 2019’s well-reviewed The Mus­tang (the one in which pris­on­er Matthias Schoe­naerts is reformed by break­ing a horse). As a peri­od piece, as a win­dow into fem­i­nin­i­ty, and as a pre­cur­sor to the bodice-rip­ping cham­ber dra­ma, it will be a marked depar­ture for her.

And that’s not all Corrin’s got planned, either; she’ll con­tin­ue to ride the wave of her new­found pop­u­lar­i­ty to a role in the upcom­ing, Har­ry Styles-led queer dra­ma My Police­man as well. Next stop? Fran­chise gig!