Jack Lowden Transforms Into WWI Poet Siegfried Sassoon in 'Benediction' Trailer - Watch Now!

The trailer for Jack Lowden‘s new movie has been released!

Roadside Attractions debuted the trailer for the upcoming movie Benediction with the 31-year-old actor portraying real-life WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon.

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Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Terence Davies, Benediction “explores the turbulent life of WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon (Lowden). The writer and soldier was a complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery but who became a vocal critic of the government’s continuation of the war when he returned from service. His poetry was inspired by his experiences on the Western Front, and he became one of the leading war poets of the era. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London’s literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality. At the same time, broken by the horror of war, he made his life’s journey a quest for salvation, trying to find it within the conformity of marriage and religion.”

The movie also stars Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Calem Lynch, Tom Blyth, Kate Phillips, Geraldine James, Anton Lesser, Suzanne Bertish,
Matthew Tennyson, and Julian Sands.

Benediction will be released in theaters on June 3.