According to Bleeding Cool, Mia Wasikowska has replaced Amanda in “Albert Nobbs” which is set to begin production in about a month. With Amanda’s busy schedule, this was pretty much expected, but still disappointing as she was excited about the project. However, as we can already see, she has a lot of things on her plate and there’s surely many exciting projects heading her way!
Fresh off the “Chloe” red carpet, Amanda spoke to Cinematical about “Albert Nobbs”, giving us some details on the movie and her role!
Seyfriend couldn’t officially confirm that she was signed on to The Girl with the Red Riding Hood (after accidentally slipping up and mentioning it to Ryan Seacrest at the Oscars), but she was happy to discuss Nobbs, which sounds equally interesting.
“[Close] cast me in it to play her love interest … and it’s f*cking amazing. It’s a really amazing script! It’s crazy. It’s a version of myself, but with an accent, so it’s going to be really challenging in a very technical way, but I’m so excited to talk about that. That’s confirmed!”
Later, she added, “She plays a woman playing a man because those days, in order to get by, sometimes you had to pretend you were a man to get those certain types of jobs that, you know, paid well. I play a maid, and Orlando Bloom plays my lover, and Janet McTeer and I think Jonathan Rhys Meyers are in it.”
Yay, a new role for Amanda! Congrats to her and we can’t wait to get more details! Thanks to A_Seyfried_NEWS for the heads up!
Amanda Seyfried, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Orlando Bloom have joined Michael Gambon, Janet McTeer and Glenn Close in Albert Nobbs.
The film marks the feature producing debut of Damages star Close, who co-wrote the script with Man Booker prize-winning author John Banville, based on a short story by Irish author George Moore. The drama stars Close as a woman who poses as a man in order to find work and survive in 19th Century Ireland. She becomes enmeshed in an unusual love triangle. After 20 years of gender-faking, she finds herself confined to a prison of her own making.
Rodrigo Garcia is directing, and production will begin June in London. The film is a passion project for Close, who won an Obie playing the Nobbs character in an Off-Broadway interpretation of the Moore story called The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs.
Close will produce with Bonnie Curtis, Julie Lynn and Alan Moloney. WestEnd Films is selling international territories. Close previously starred for Garcia in Nine Lives and Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her.
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