21 March 2007
Rupert Everett and Richard E. Grant to play women in new version of film about less-than-prim schoolgirls
Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Russell Brand and Stephen Fry start work on the modern-day reworking of classic Brit comedy St Trinian's this Saturday at London's Ealing Studios.
Everett will be donning drag for his part as unorthodox headmistress Camilla Fritton, as well as playing her brother Carnaby. Colin Firth will play a sinister education minister hell-bent on making the chaotic school 'respectable', while a cast of up-and-coming young actors take on the parts of the notorious students who team up to save their academy from impending doom.
Emily Watson and Richard E. Grant are also attached to the project, and Grant is rumoured to be joining Everett in the cross-dressing camp, playing a character called Mrs Hicks.