Jemima Goldsmith took to her Twitter to share her excitement about working with Shabana Azmi and Sajal Aly. The producer is working with the two actors on Shekhar Kapur’s next directorial. Film and TV producer Jemima Goldsmith shared pictures from the sets of What’s Love Got to Do With. However, Goldsmith is happy to be working with the south Asian stars and expressed the same in her tweet.
I get to work with these South Asian screen legends Shabana Azmi and Sajal Ali … @Iamsajalali @AzmiShabana pic.twitter.com/QXdGUK5Tbi
— Jemima Goldsmith (@Jemima_Khan) February 17, 2021
Best day ever @AsimC86 #whatslovegottodowithit pic.twitter.com/GrMwth12bV
— Jemima Goldsmith (@Jemima_Khan) February 18, 2021
Shekhar Kapur will direct the British rom-com film The last films he directed were the Cate Blanchett starrer Elizabeth: The Golden Age back in 2007; and the 2008 anthology film New York, I Love You. The film’s cast includes Lily James, Emma Thompson, Shazad Latif, Rob Brydon, and Asim Chaudhry apart from Azmi and Ali.
Jemima is the writer and also the co-producer for the project, and the movie marks her writing debut. She had produced Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story as well as the HBO documentary series The Case Against Adnan Syed.
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jemima Khan, and Nicky Kentish will co-produce the movie under the banners Working Title Films and Instinct Productions. Lily James, Emma Thompson, and Shazad Latif were the first to join the cast, while Rob Brydon, Shabana Azmi, Sajal Ali, and Asim Chaudhry came on board the project last month in January 2021.