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FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS

hen actress Ruth Wilson () teamed up with Jude Law to option Deborah Kay Davies’ cult 2010 novel , the plan was to find a filmmaker to bring it to the screen. Harry Wootliff, who made her feature debut with 2018’s IVF drama , readily agreed to adapt Davies’ tale about an unnamed single woman who works in a benefits office and – on a whim – has sex with one of her claimants in a car park.

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