Vanessa Kirby Must Race Against the Clock in 'Night Always Comes'

Thanks to the premiere of The Fantastic Four: First Steps this weekend, the world is about to come to know British actress Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, one of the most famous heroines in all of Marvel comics. But to Anglophiles everywhere, she'll always be Princess Margaret in The Crown. Kirby's breakout performance as Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister won raves from virtually every corner and is one of the most memorable aspects of a show full of standout moments. And it's yielded some rather thrilling career moves for the actress, including a turn as Empress Josephine Bonaparte in director Ridley Scott's Napoleon. Next up, she'll take on the lead role in Netflix's high-stakes thriller Night Always Comes, about a woman's desperate struggle to survive.

Based on Willy Vlautin’s 2021 novel The Night Always Comes, the story follows Leanne (Kirby), a working-class woman in the Pacific Northwest who embarks on a quest to find the money to save her home after she's put in a financial bind by her irresponsible mother. Over the course of a single, stressful night, her journey will take her through the seediest corners of Portland as she calls in old debts, faces her own dark past in new ways, and struggles to find the cash to both keep a roof over her head and keep her developmentally disabled older brother living with the family.

If the trailer is anything to go by, Night Always Comes looks set to be a high-tension, propulsive story, as Leanna is forced to make impossible choices and decide how far she's willing to go in order to survive.