In the event you’re not conversant in Simone Ashley in the intervening time, you quickly will probably be. The British actor who first popped because the Untouchable Olivia in the Netflix comedy “Intercourse Schooling” has rocketed to streaming stardom as Kathani in Chris Van Dusen’s interval romance “Bridgerton,” additionally for Netflix. The whole (fairly giant) “Bridgerton” ensemble simply earned a Display screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Excellent Efficiency by an Ensemble in a Drama (dropping to “Shōgun”), and Ashley has confirmed that she is going to return for season 4.
If that is all Ashley had occurring in her life, that’d be greater than sufficient to substantiate that she is a star quick on the rise. She’s additionally within the solid of this summer season’s extremely anticipated Brad Pitt racing flick “F1” from “High Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski, and is at present recording her first album with famend producer/songwriter Fraser T. Smith. There is no assure that every one of that is going to vault Ashley onto the Hollywood A-list, however, having been one among Selection’s “Brits to Watch” 4 years in the past, she appears to be arriving proper on schedule.
And there is not any higher proof for this than the truth that she stars in what’s at present the top-rated movie on Amazon Prime Video.
Image This can be a rom-com hit for Ashley (and Prime Video)
Based on FlixPatrol, Prarthana Mohan’s rom-com “Image This,” which stars Ashley, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Luke Fetherston, and Anoushka Chadha, debuted on the high of the streamer’s listing of most seen movies, beating out “My Fault: London,” “The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film” and “Smile 2.” On condition that nobody here’s a massive identify apart from Ashley (Fiennes Tiffin is from a household with massive names like his uncles Ralph and Joseph), you possibly can just about credit score Ashley for the film’s recognition.
The plot of “Image This” facilities on single gal Pia (Ashley), who, whereas attending her sister’s engagement celebration, learns from a guru that one among her subsequent 5 dates will wind up being her real love. He sadly cannot get extra particular about this, so Pia has to depend on vibes and lord is aware of what else to find out which of those guys is the one she’s meant to be with. Free will is difficult like that.
“Image This” at present holds a 50% Contemporary score at Rotten Tomatoes (Selection’s Courtney Howard discovered it “Candy, foolish, and honest,” whereas The Guardian’s Adrian Horton opined that “it is neither offense nor memorable), however the Popcornmeter is much extra charitable with a 71% favorable score. It does not sound just like the form of film that may find yourself on Ashley’s clip reel ought to she make good on her famous person promise, however it’s no embarrassment both.