Danielle Deadwyler, Ike Barinholtz and Connor Storrie Join Billie Eilish and Carey Mulligan in ‘The Bell Jar’

Dylan Hawco, Lili Taylor, Ella Beatty, Maggie Kuntz also star in Sarah Polley's latest film

By Angelique Jackson

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Focus Features has confirmed the cast for Academy Award winner Sarah Polley‘s “The Bell Jar,” starring Billie Eilish.

Eilish, a two-time Oscar-winning singer-songwriter, makes her film acting debut playing Esther Greenwood, the protagonist of Sylvia Plath’s classic novel. Plath’s semi-autobiographical story follows as the aspiring young writer landes a magazine internship in New York City and chronicles her struggles with ambition, identity and mental health amid the stifling societal expectations for women in the 1950s.

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