David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike in “A United Kingdom” trailer (video) December 8, 2016 - 15:26 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Fox Searchlight has released a new trailer for A United Kingdom, and it offers a closer look at David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike's international romance, The Hollywood Reporter said. Written by Guy Hibbert and adapted from Susan Williams' book Colour Bar, Amma Asante's historical drama tells the story of Seretse Khama (Oyelowo), a member of the royal family in Bechuanaland, a former English colony in Africa that would become Botswana. He shocked the world when he married white British bank clerk Ruth Williams (Pike) in 1948, when interracial marriage was illegal. "Father will hate him on sight — he's cleverer than him, and he's black," Pike is told by her sister in the new trailer, which also shows how the two first met in a jazz club. The naysaying continues: "Who do you think will accept you, as if it were your right to be our queen?" says one African resident, as another echoes, "We need him more than you — let him go." Yet Oyelowo asserts at the end of the preview, "I am ready to serve you because I love my people. I love this land, but I love my wife." A United Kingdom hits theaters Feb. 17. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |