Elizabeth Hurley has continued her foray into thrillers as she celebrated the premiere of Strictly Confidential this week. The English actor and model gathered with friends, family, and the media for a special screening of the racy tropical thriller. After 2023’s The Piper, the 58-year-old was ready to star in another scary flick — this time with the help of her son, 22-year-old Damian Hurley. See pics of the family affair and an Elizabeth Hurley look that further establishes her as an iconic sex symbol.
Llyrio Boateng, Georgia Lock, Damian Hurley, Pear Chiravara, Elizabeth Hurley, and Agi Nanjosi | Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images
The mother and son’s first joint film project screened in London on May 8, 2024. Elizabeth was happy to support Damian’s first go at directing in the form of a starring role. Despite backlash over her steamy lesbian sex scenes, the Bedazzled actor seemed unbothered in Chelsea at The Everyman Cinema.
Llyrio Boateng, Georgia Lock, Damian Hurley, Pear Chiravara, Elizabeth Hurley, and Agi Nanjosi | Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images
The mother and son’s first joint film project screened in London on May 8, 2024. Elizabeth was happy to support Damian’s first go at directing in the form of a starring role. Despite backlash over her steamy lesbian sex scenes, the Bedazzled actor seemed unbothered in Chelsea at The Everyman Cinema.
- 5/14/2024
- by Ali Hicks
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
“Some secrets are meant to stay buried” says the ad line for “Strictly Confidential.” But you’d need a sizable underground bunker to contain all the effortfully shocking revelations sprung in this very silly sudser, which starts out looking like an erotic thriller-mystery, then descends into a series of flashback-laden explication monologues more apt for “Dynasty” than Agatha Christie.
Damian Hurley’s directorial feature, with famous mum Elizabeth top-billed and producing, provides several hardbodied younger performers opportunity to model clothes and approximate recognizable human emotions on the coastline of tax haven island nation Saint Kitts and Nevis. But what was likely an enjoyable working Caribbean vacation for cast and crew proves somewhat labored for viewers. Nonetheless, watched in the right spirit, with appropriate libations, it could prove quite entertaining … if not in the way presumably intended. Lionsgate is releasing to U.S. theaters, digital and on-demand platforms on April 5.
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Damian Hurley’s directorial feature, with famous mum Elizabeth top-billed and producing, provides several hardbodied younger performers opportunity to model clothes and approximate recognizable human emotions on the coastline of tax haven island nation Saint Kitts and Nevis. But what was likely an enjoyable working Caribbean vacation for cast and crew proves somewhat labored for viewers. Nonetheless, watched in the right spirit, with appropriate libations, it could prove quite entertaining … if not in the way presumably intended. Lionsgate is releasing to U.S. theaters, digital and on-demand platforms on April 5.
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- 4/4/2024
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
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