The Prodigy is coming to Netflix with Florence Pugh and a mystery inspired by a real phenomenon

Florence Pugh is very close to reaching Netflix, because the actress is the protagonist of one of the most interesting films that the platform is preparing, we refer to ‘The prodigy’, an interesting vintage production that, even if it may not seem like it, has a mysterious plot inspired by events that really happened in the nineteenth century.

Being close to release on Netflix, “The Prodigy” has shared its first official trailer on the streaming giant’s social networks, which makes it clear that this title with actress Florence Pugh It will come with a plot with doses of drama and great mystery, a film that will present a fictional plot that addresses a real phenomenon known as “fasting women”.

If you are interested in seeing this new Netflix dramayou should know that the aforementioned phenomenon occurred in the Victorian era, where women, usually preteens, claimed to be able to spend long periods of time eating any food, some even drew the attention of the population by claiming to have some sort of religious power or magic that allowed them to survive without eating.

In the aforementioned preview shared by Netflix, we can see that ‘The prodigy’ will show Florence Pugh playing Lib Wrighta nurse sent to meet one of these fasting girls, who, accompanied by a reporter, is tasked with observing the young woman over the course of two weeks and determining whether her survival without food is a hoax or not, which leads this nurse to realize that there is more to the case than it seems.

The first of The prodigy

There is no doubt that the synopsis of ‘The Prodigy’ anticipates a huge mystery in this film, so this period title has become one of the most anticipated in the streaming giant, and the good news is that this production will not platform him. subscribers are waiting a long time for its launch, since, as we have pointed out, it is part of the previews of next November.

It will be next Wednesday, November 16, when ‘The Prodigy’ will be available in the Netflix catalog, an interesting production that, it should be noted, will arrive with a large cast, because in addition to the starring role of the actress Florence Pugh, it has the main cast composed from the work of Kila Lord Cassidy and Tom Burke.

What is a fact is this Netflix new vintage movie is one of the big launches of the platform in 2022, a title that comes with a fictional storyline, which is based on the book of the same name written by Emma Donoghue and published in 2016, a work which in turn, as we have pointed out, is inspired by the strange real phenomenon.