Director: Thea Sharrock
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Rosamund Pike, Tom Davis, Emily Mortimer, Weruche Opia
Ladies First — Characters & Cast
Character Analysis
Damien Sachs
Sacha Baron Cohen
Motivation
Initially to secure the Atlas CEO position; later, to survive the flipped reality and find his way home.
Character Arc
Starts as a self-absorbed corporate ladder-climber who treats women as sexual conquests and disposable underlings. Once cast down into the subordinate class of the matriarchy, he suffers humiliation, learns resilience, and develops genuine emotional intelligence and empathy.
Alex Fox
Rosamund Pike
Motivation
To retain creative authority and dominate the corporate arena on her own terms.
Character Arc
In the real world, an unappreciated creative director who rejects corporate condescension; in the alternate reality, she is an apex executive who exudes unyielding confidence, casual dominance, and unapologetic ambition, though she gradually softens as she bonds with Damien.
Atlas Client / Senior Executive
Fiona Shaw
Motivation
Exercising unchecked corporate power and indulging personal hedonism.
Character Arc
Represents the unapologetic apex of power in the matriarchal society, treating subordinate men as disposable playthings for her own amusement.
Agency Mentor / CEO Figure
Charles Dance / Richard E. Grant
Motivation
Maintaining corporate prestige and avoiding disruption.
Character Arc
Reflects the established power dynamic of whatever society he inhabits—comfortably presiding over the status quo in the patriarchal agency, and relegated to peripheral advisory or subordinate domestic roles in the matriarchy.
Cast
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