The upcoming movie will also bring Michelle Yeoh together again with Golding following the global success of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’, in which they both played lead roles.

The movie title is a reference to the classic song from 80’s group ‘Wham!’, and follows Kate, played by Clarke, a cynical young woman who works in a Christmas store whose life will be turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious, happy-go-lucky man, played by Golding.

Kate, cynical and demotivated, is drifting through a passionless life. One day, her boss, played by Yeoh, loudly exclaims “I have nicknamed her ‘Lazy the Elf’ because she appears never to work” to a group of customers.

At that point, Kate meet Golding’s Tom, a mysterious young man she will quickly grow close to, opening up to him to the point where she confides that she twice came close to dying.

“I was really sick and I nearly died. I don’t tell people because they get weird, but I don’t think you’ll get weird,” Kate confides to Tom. “I’m just scared all the time.”

The feature, which was co-written by Emma Thompson, who also plays Kate’s mother. It was directed by Paul Feig, the filmmaker behind the 2018 film ‘A Simple Favor’ starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick.

‘Last Christmas’ will be Clarke’s first rom-com role and marks a return to cinema following 2018’s ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’. The movie plot hits especially close to home for the British actress who has revealed that she suffered two life-threatening aneurysms while on the set of ‘Game of Thrones’.