Maika Monroe Cast as Killer Governess in Victorian Psycho Adaptation
Published on May 15, 2025
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Maika Monroe, whose recent credits include starring against Nicolas Cage in Longlegs (pictured above), will play a murderous mistress in Victorian Psycho, an adaptation of Virginia Feito’s 2025 novel of the same name.
Feito also wrote the script for the adaptation, for which The Hollywood Reporter gave the following synopsis:
Set in 1858, the story centers on a governess named Winifred Notty, hiding her psychopathic tendencies while arriving to work at a remote gothic manor. But as the woman takes care of her charges, staff members begin to inexplicably disappear, and the owners of the estate begin to wonder, too late mind you, if their new governess is serving up a spoonful of sugar with a little arsenic on the side.
Monroe has replaced Margaret Qualley (The Substance) in playing Notty, and joins Thomasin McKenzie (Last Night in Soho, JoJo Rabbit) on the callsheet.
“Maika’s intense screen presence has resonated with me over and over again throughout her history of complex performances,” director Zachary Wigon said in a statement. “I’m absolutely thrilled for her to bring her unique style of psychological portraiture to the fascinatingly bizarre Winifred Notty.”
Production is set to start this August. No news yet on when the film will make its way to a theater near you.[end-mark]
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