Vanessa Kirby uncovers lesbian pioneer history in 'The World to Come'
Los Angeles (AFP) - Vanessa Kirby shot to global fame as young Princess Margaret in "The Crown," winning plaudits for her sultry and tragic portrayal of the British queen's headstrong younger sister. In "The World to Come," out Friday, the English actress plays another complex and passionate woman grappling with the impossible pressures and conventions of her era -- this time, the 19th-century US frontier. The movie follows two farmers' wives trapped by a brutal winter in pre-Civil War America, with only their neglectful husbands for company, until an unexpected and forbidden affair develops b...