Kate Beckinsale ditches the make-up and goes full-on ugly on the inside for her role in Farming

FANS of Kate Beckinsale used to seeing the actress playing a kick-ass heroine in tight leather will get a shock when they catch her in her latest role.

In Farming, the Underworld star ditches the make-up and goes full-on ugly on the inside, playing a racist Essex foster mum to Nigerian kids.

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It also shows Beckinsale really can act, which I must admit was a pleasant revelation to me.

All credit should go to first-time director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje for pulling fine performances not only from Beckinsale but from lead actor Damson Idris.

Damson, star of the American television series Snowfall, is a cauldron of bubbling, spitting emotions as the young black man trying to find his place in a cruel world.

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He plays Enitan, who is “farmed” out to foster parents in Seventies Britain and joins a violent skinhead gang in an unfathomable bid to fit in and find acceptance.

The extremely violent story is based loosely on the childhood experiences of director Adewale.

And it is his passion for this project which sets Farming above so many other homegrown movies you will see this year.

Farming (18) 102mins

★★★★☆

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