Role Play is a 2024 action comedy film directed by Thomas Vincent, written by Seth Owen, produced by Andrew Rona and Kaley Cuoco.
The film stars Cuoco, David Oyelowo, Rudi Dharmalingam, Connie Nielsen, and Bill Nighy.
Emma leads a double life, Dave's loving wife for seven years and Wyatt and Caroline's mother, but also secretly an assassin.
Her frequent “business trips” create a rift in her family life, leading to missed anniversaries and strained attempts to maintain a connection with her loved ones.
Reminding her to keep a low profile, he has found another ad on the dark web from her former employer Sovereign offering a reward for finding her.
The couple continue with their role play and drinking heavily, then head to their room, where Dave promptly falls asleep.
She promises she needs to tie up loose ends, then will stop killing as she simply wants a normal and safe life for them as a family.
Reuniting with her family, they head out together In July 2020, it was announced that StudioCanal and The Picture Company had acquired Role Play, a thriller spec script written by Seth Owen, based on an original idea by George Heller, to be produced by Alex Heineman and Andrew Rona.
[4] In July 2021, it was announced that Kaley Cuoco was in negotiations to star in the film, as well as produce alongside Heineman and Rona.
[8] In July 2022, it was announced that Bill Nighy had replaced Thornton, who had to leave the film due to a scheduling conflict.
[9] In June 2022, it was reported that Amazon Prime Video was in final negotiations to release the film in the United States and several international territories.
[11] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 38 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.
[12] Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote: "Luckily, Role Play is handled lightly enough by Vincent's direction and Seth Owen's script that we never feel the need to take it very seriously.