United Kingdom, March 10 -- Taylor Swift's former boyfriend Joe Alwyn has landed a high-profile new role acting opposite Rachel Weisz.

The 35-year-old actor has joined the cast of new movie Seance on a Wet Afternoon in which he will appear alongside Rachel and Matthew Macfadyen. The film has been scripted by Adolescence writer Jack Thorne and tells the story of a self-proclaimed medium who convinces her husband to kidnap the son of a wealthy family so she can lead the police to the child and prove her physic powers.

The new project comes more than 60 years after the release of the 1964 version of Seance on a Wet Afternoon - based on the book of the same name by Mark McShane - which starred Kim Stanley and Lord Richard Attenborough.

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