White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood lands huge new film role alongside Angelina Jolie

WHITE Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood had landed a top film role alongside Hollywood royalty Angelina Jolie.

The British actress is set to play a reluctant bank robber — with Oscar-winner , 49, as one of her accidental hostages.

Aimee Lou Wood has landed a huge new film role alongside Angelina JolieOscar-winner Angelina will play one of Aimee’s accidental hostages

The project — an adaptation of best-selling novel Anxious People — is expected to prove popular among movie executives at this week’s in the south of France.

Marc Forster, behind the camera for film Quantum of Solace, is lined up to direct.

Anxious People is a 2019 book by the Swedish author Fredrik Backman.

It is being adapted by screenwriter David Magee — who worked on box office hits Life of Pi and Finding Neverland.

A Swedish telly series was aired on in 2021

Aimee, 31, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, is one of the country’s rising stars thanks to her stand-out role in the latest series of HBO’s comedy-drama .

She previously won a Bafta forBest Female Comedy Performance in the Netflix series .

Aimee is a rising star thanks to her stand-out role in the latest series of The White Lotus