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Showbiz Article Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor are forced back together as they play an estranged couple in new HBO Max heist film Locked Down

Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor star as a couple on the verge of separation in their upcoming new heist film, Locked Down, which will be released on January 14.

In the flick’s new trailer, released on Tuesday, the 38-year-old Oscar winner stars as Linda, who is forced to navigate a mandatory lockdown, which coincides with her untimely decision to breakup with her estranged partner Paxton (Chiwetel Ejiofor).

While continuing to cohabit together proves to be challenging, the duo ultimately devise a plan to steal a diamond from the department store Harrods to ease their financial troubles.

Partners in crime: Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor star as a couple on the verge of separation in their new heist film, Locked Down, which will be released on January 14

The nearly three-minute teaser begins with Paxton describing the lockdown in London to be a ‘psychological prison of burning aloneness’ to his pals.

When someone asks him how Linda is doing he curtly replies: ‘She’s somewhere in this house.’

‘Is there some type of issue?’ another asks of their relationship, prompting him to explain they are ‘fine,’ but Linda was ‘planning to end’ their ‘thing.’

Paxton complains: ‘For two weeks, we are locked together here.’

New role: In the flick’s new trailer , released on Tuesday, the 38-year-old Oscar winner stars as Linda, who is forced to navigate a mandatory lockdown, which coincides with her untimely decision to breakup with her estranged partner Paxton (Chiwetel Ejiofor)

At odds: While continuing to cohabit together proves to be challenging, the duo ultimately devise a plan to steal a diamond from the department store, Harrods, to ease their financial troubles

Meanwhile, footage cuts to Linda screaming outside and, later, saying: ‘Not only is everything not okay, nothing is okay.’

Paxton becomes furloughed from his job and says ‘there is literally zero purpose’ to his life, before stepping out of their home to bring back provisions.

Upon standing in line at a grocery store, he asks a a man toting multiple bags of toilet paper: ”Hey, how many **ses have you got?’

Unhappy: The nearly three-minute teaser begins with Paxton describing the lockdown in London to be a ‘psychological prison of burning aloneness’ to his pals

Struggling: When someone asks him how Linda is doing he curtly replies: ‘She’s somewhere in this house’

Quarantine humor: Upon standing in line at a grocery store, when seeing a man leaving with multiple bags of toilet paper, he humorously quips: ”Hey, how many **ses have you got?’

Linda battles having to lay off members of her team and feels responsible for them being fired.

‘It’s not about the virus, it’s about who I am and what I do for a living,’ she says.

As her supervisors praise her, they inquire about her choice to be drinking a glass of wine during work hours.

Troubling: Linda battles having to lay off members of her team and feels responsible for them being fired

Pushing through: As her supervisors praise her, they inquire about her choice to be drinking a glass of wine during work hours

Plotting away: Exhausted and frustrated, news breaks that all major department stores are closing and everything inside them has to be moved out in four days

Exhausted and frustrated, news breaks that all major department stores are closing and everything inside them has to be moved out in four days.

She, then, tells her husband ‘since lockdown’ she has been looking back on herself ‘like that was then and this is now.’

‘Those bastards who told me to fire those people, they’re bad,’ she said of her bosses.

Changing: She, then, tells her husband ‘since lockdown’ she has been looking back on herself ‘like that was then and this is now’

‘You’re talking about stealing a diamond,’ he points out. ‘That’s three million pounds’

She continues: ‘You and I are good and good is better than bad.’

‘You’re talking about stealing a diamond,’ he points out. ‘That’s three million pounds.’

He continues: ‘Live wild or die, Linda.’

Stealing: He continues: ‘Live wild or die, Linda’

‘Harrods is the most glamorous store in the world,’ she says, while walking through the department store. ‘I know all the security guards. I know the security systems’

‘Harrods is the most glamorous store in the world,’ she says, while walking through the department store. ‘I know all the security guards. I know the security systems.’

Their risky and illegal shenanigans appear to bring them closer and closer together as they can be seen sharing a kiss at the end of the trailer.

Earlier this week, Hathaway gushed about her character and how the experience of filming in the pandemic about the pandemic felt for her.

Happily ever after? The shenanigans appear to bring them closer and closer together as they can be seen sharing two respective kisses at the trailer

The actress and mother of two told People that the experience making the movie was ‘very normal’ in some ways, but also ‘completely wild.’

Anne said that ‘the sheer act of making it, of doing something so collaborative and audacious made us all very focused and open – and strangely free.’

Adding: ‘Like the odds were so against us anyway that is made me want to lean into the exhilaration and take risks with my performance.’

The latest:  Hathaway recently spoke about her character Linda and how the experience of filming in the pandemic about the pandemic felt for her; seen January 6, 2019 at the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills

While she felt safe at work, the star did say she felt nervous taking off her mask amid the alarming number of cases of COVID-19 around the world.

The Oscar winner said: ‘It was scary taking my mask off every day, and so I really appreciated how committed the crew was to keeping their masks on – even when we were shooting in hot rooms and they were carrying heavy camera and lighting equipment they were always, always masked. Their professionalism helped keep me safe, and I was incredibly grateful to them.’

The film, which is a heist/romantic comedy according to Deadline, was shot in London during the pandemic by director Doug Liman and will debut on HBO Max.

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