Kirsten Dunst is set to star in “The Housemaid‘s Secret” alongside Sydney Sweeney.
The film is the follow-up to 2025’s box office hit “The Housemaid,” which has generated nearly $400 million to date. Based on Freida McFadden’s bestselling novel, the twisted story follows Sweeney as Millie, a young woman with a mysterious past who is hired as the live-in maid for a wealthy family with a dark secret. In the sequel, Millie returns, and per the plot description, she takes a job “keeping house for a woman she’s never allowed to see — only to discover the truth behind the locked door that threatens to expose secrets far darker than her own.”
“It is a privilege to bring ‘The Housemaid’s’ next chapter to the screen with Kirsten Dunst,” said Lionsgate’s motion picture group president Erin Westerman. “She is an icon. Her career reflects extraordinary range and fearlessness. Opposite the ever-magnetic Sydney Sweeney, she will be an electrifying force in a world where nothing is ever quite as it seems.”
Paul Feig will direct “The Housemaid’s Secret,” returning alongside screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine, who adapted the first book. Michele Morrone will also return as the groundskeeper Enzo, reprising his role from the first film. Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar, who play the husband and wife whose perfect life is far from what it seems in the original, won’t be back for the sequel as the story focuses on a new family.
Producers will include Hidden Pictures’ Todd Lieberman; Feig, who produces through his Pretty Dangerous Pictures, and his partner, Laura Fischer; and Sweeney through her Fifty-Fifty Films banner. Carly Elter, who oversaw the first movie for Hidden Pictures, is returning as executive producer. Alex Young of Hidden Pictures will also executive produce. Fifty Fifty’s Kaylee McGregor will co-produce. Chelsea Kujawa and Maria Ascanio are overseeing the project for Lionsgate.
Dunst recently joined the cast of “A Minecraft Movie 2,” which is slated to release next June. She will also star in director Ruben Östlund’s next film “The Entertainment System Is Down.” Dunst, an Oscar nominee for “The Power of the Dog,” was last seen in “Roofman” with Channing Tatum and “Civil War” from Alex Garland. Deadline first reported the news of her casting in “The Housemaid’s Secret.”
Source: variety.com
