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  • Rooney Mara to play Audrey Hepburn in Luca Guadagnino’s next directorial movie

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Actor Rooney Mara is set to portray Hollywood golden era icon Audrey Hepburn in an upcoming movie by filmmaker Luca Guadagnino.

    The yet-untitled film has been set up at Apple Studios with Michael Mitnick of “Vinyl” fame penning the script, reported Deadline.

    Mara, known for films such as “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”, “Carol”, “Her” and “Lion”, will also produce the project alongside Apple Studios.

    Hepburn is best known for Hollywood classics like “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, “Roman Holiday”, “My Fair Lady”, “Funny Face” and “Sabrina”.

    She set an enduring fashion legacy with her choice of clothes with her opening scene in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” in a black dress and pearl necklace being one of the most copied looks in popular culture.

    The actor was also known for her philanthropic endeavours during her lifetime as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.

    Hepburn died at the age of 63 in 1993 after a battle with colon cancer.

  • Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley cast in ‘Women Talking’ adaptation

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Actors Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Ben Whishaw have joined Frances McDormand in the upcoming feature adaptation of author Miriam Toews’ bestselling novel “Women Talking”.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, August Winter, Liv McNeil and Kate Hallett have also boarded the cast of the film.

    “Women Talking”, which was published in 2018, follows a group of women in an isolated Mennonite religious colony in Bolivia as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.

    Oscar nominee Sarah Polley is attached to write and direct the project.

    The film hails from MGM’s Orion Pictures and Plan B Entertainment.

    McDormand, who won the best actress Academy Award, her third, for “Nomadland” earlier this year, will also back the “Women Talking” via her Hear/Say Productions.