While her last film “Five Feet Apart” didn’t do much to thrill us, there’s no denying that in the brief moments the film worked, it worked because of the performance Haley Lu Richardson turned in. Not new to the screen, Richardson first stole focus in the phenomenal coming of age flick “Edge of Seventeen” and managed to make an afterthought of a character be presented with agency in the surprisingly decent “Split.” However, it was with her role in “Columbus,” and then, a scene-stealing role in last year’s underseen “Support the Girls” that allowed her to fully come into her own and declare herself one of the most versatile new talents on the scene.

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“From the writer and director of ‘Downton Abbey’” would normally be all that’s required to sell a film to a general audience. However, in the case of the upcoming film “The Chaperone,” not only do you have a writer and a director from the upcoming “Downton Abbey” film and acclaimed TV series, but you also have a great cast, including one of the more interesting up and coming actresses today.

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