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How to watch Promising Young Woman online

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Photo credit: Pool - Getty Images

Promising Young Woman swept the floor with its 2021 Academy Award nominations, before scooping up the Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars last night [24 April.] But how can you watch it in the UK? The film is actually already available to stream online: here's what you need to know.

While Carey Mulligan wasn't named in the Best Actress category during the Academy Awards, Emerald Fennell (aka The Crown's Camilla Parker-Bowles) was the first woman in 13 years to scoop up the Best Original Screenplay gong.

In her acceptance speech, she said, "he’s so heavy and so cold" referring to her Oscar, before thanking her leading actor Carey Mulligan, for being “not only the most talented person in the world but also the kindest and funniest”. She also thanked her family and her newborn son, who arrived “two weeks after shooting, thank God. I was crossing my legs.”

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Promising Young Woman stars Carey Mulligan, Alison Brie, Laverne Cox and Jennifer Coolidge, and tells the story of Cassie (played by Carey), a woman who seeks to avenge the death of her best friend, who was a victim of rape.

An unexpected encounter leads her to attempt to right the wrongs of the past, by pretending to be a drunk vulnerable woman who then confronts the men who attempt to take advantage of her, leading a secret double life at night.

Photo credit: Pool - Getty Images
Photo credit: Pool - Getty Images

To watch the film in the UK, here's what you need to know. Promising Young Woman is available on Sky Cinema and NOW, and has been since Friday 16th April. It's available contract free with the NOW Cinema Membership, and if you haven't seen it already, what have you been doing?

Subscribing to a NOW Sky Cinema Membership will cost £11.99 a month. If you haven't been a subscriber to NOW before, you can take advantage of their seven-day free trial.

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Promising Young Woman is a must-watch, with Peter Kujawski, head of the film’s distributor, Focus Features, explaining to Variety why. "We want audiences to know that, love it or hate it, you have to show up — because we’re delivering you a real jolt.

"[The] hair on my arms stood up watching the first cut of this movie, and the realisation of what Emerald Fennell's done here. Not only is it the degree of achievement, which we think is at the highest level, but it’s about the boldness."

Congratulatos on the Oscars win, Emerald - we can't wait to see what you do next.

Sign up to NOW to watch Promising Young Woman here.

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