By Patrick Cremona

Published: Friday, 30 September 2022 at 12:00 am


1950s-set comedy-drama Mrs Harris Goes to Paris finally arrives in UK cinemas today (Friday 30th September), more than two months after its US release – and star Lesley Manville is already hoping for a follow-up.

The film – which is based on a 1958 book by Paul Gallico – sees Manville take on the lead role of Ada Harris, a cleaning lady who takes an adventurous trip to the French capital in order to buy her dream Dior dress.

And speaking to RadioTimes.com ahead of its UK release, the Sherwood star revealed that there’s a good possibility of more adventures for Ada in the future.

“I think there are because there are several sequels [to the book],” she said. “And the film is doing very well in the States. I mean, it’s yet to open anywhere else in the world – it’s about to.  So I think it’s set to not only get lovely reviews because it’s done so well in the States, but I think it’s set to make money as well.

“So that always interests distributors and filmmakers, doesn’t it? You can’t keep just making a film because you like the idea of it. It has to be financially viable. And so I would imagine that it would be and so I imagine that they will want to make some more – but there’s nothing definite about that at the moment.”