Sofia Carson is waxin’ poetic…
Netflix has released the trailer for My Oxford Year, starring the 32-year-old Colombian American actress.
Based on the book by Julia Whelan, Carson stars as ambitious American student Anna, who has one year at Oxford University for a study abroad program before she returns to U.S. for a job at Goldman Sachs waiting for her.
“We have a student all the way from…” Corey Mylchreest’s Jamie Davenport prompts Anna after viewers see the school’s headmaster encourage students to “seize” their “precious time” at the historic school.
“New York,” Anna answers.00:00
Anna’s life is completely on track until this detour.
With the aim to fulfill a childhood dream, she soon finds herself completely charmed by her poetry professor, and they assert that they’ll just have fun romantically.
“Flirting with the hot teacher on the first day?” Harry Trevaldwyn’s character Charlie Butler asks Anna following this encounter, in which there is an obvious spark. She denies it, but Charlie encourages it.
“O, no, I love it,” he says. “That is a serious bit of crumpet.”
The film also stars Dougray Scott, Catherine McCormack, Esmé Kingdom, Nikhil Parmar, Poppy Gilbert, Romina Cocca, Yadier Fernández, Nia Anisah and Hugh Coles.
Directed by Iain Morris from a screenplay by Allison Burnett and Melissa Osborne, My Oxford Year is produced by Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Laura Quicksilver and Isaac Klausner.
Executive producers include Caroline Levy, Sofia Carson, Laura Char Carson, Christopher Simon, Maggie Monteith and Pete Harris. George Berman serves as co-producer.
After Jamie shows Anna a hidden part of the Oxford Library prompted by her sharing that she loves to be amongst dusty first editions of books, their purely “fun” romance seems to get more serious, at least on her part.
“You don’t need to try and fix my life,” Jamie tells her. “Some things are just broken. Don’t waste the short time you have left in Oxford on me.”
A friend to Anna tells her it’s not worth the pain to get involved, but she feels differently.
“I don’t know what you’re going through, then you don’t have to do it alone,” she tells Jamie. “This is the messiness of life. These are the best bits. A succession of moments is really all we have, and I want mine to be with you.”
