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“The reality is,” Ana de Armas purrs within the first full trailer for Hulu’s erotic thriller Deep Water, “if you happen to have been married to anybody else, you’d be so bored you’d kill your self.” Seems like a superbly wholesome and in no way poisonous basis for a relationship!
De Armas’ Melinda Van Allen utters that threatening thought as she returns dwelling to her husband Vic, performed by the actress’ real-life ex Ben Affleck, after spending the night time with one other man. She openly flaunts her affair, strutting round with tousled hair and final night time’s little black costume.
Within the movie, tailored from Patricia Highsmith’s 1957 novel, de Armas and Affleck’s perfect-on-paper marriage is definitely fraught with thoughts video games, steamy extramarital affairs, and–oh yeah, that’s proper–the occasional homicide. De Armas’ Melinda appears to carry the playing cards within the relationship, locking eyes with Affleck as she makes out with one other man, wears a wardrobe consisting completely of cleavage-baring all-black outfits, and coolly says that her marriage to Vic has “at all times been a sport.”
However a menacing glint within the eyes of the worst Batman hints on the harmful fury effervescent beneath Vic’s calm and picked up exterior. Quickly, one in every of Melinda’s lovers (performed by Euphoria villain Jacob Elordi) is dragged unconscious from a swimming pool.
Deep Water marks director Adrian Lyne’s first movie since 2002’s Diane Lane-led Untrue. The English filmmaker is thought for his no-holds-barred psychosexual thrillers that straddle the road between pulp and artwork. And with this new trailer—which is ready to suspenseful music and options photographs of de Armas shrugging out of her costume and writhing round half-naked within the passenger seat of a automotive—it appears Lyne will probably be sticking to what he is aware of with Deep Water.
Written by Zach Helm and Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, Deep Water was initially set to hit theaters in January, however was pulled from Disney’s calendar a month earlier than its launch and despatched straight to streaming. It additionally stars Finn Wittrock, Tracy Letts, Lil Rel Howery, Sprint Mihok, and Rachel Blanchard.
For individuals who miss the times of Affleck and de Armas’ whirlwind, paparazzi-friendly romance and Dunkin’-infused strolls, you'll be able to see the previous flames reunited in Deep Water when it hits Hulu on March 18.