FACTS & RUMORS ABOUND!
May 30th, 2009Just what have our favorite ladies been working on lately?
KATE MULGREW
There is a rumor floating about that Kate will soon start shooting on a part in the comedy The Best and Brightest with Neil Patrick Harris and Amy Sedaris. The film centers around a young couple scheming to get their kindergartner into one of the best schools in NYC. It is unknown what role Kate is performing, as there are several possibilities: a conniving “educational consultant,” one of the school’s premiere donors (a Senator), or the school’s headmistress. We look forward to finding out!
It is also rumored that Kate is in casting talks for a role in The Incredible Story of Joyce McKinney and the Manacled Mormon, based on a true story about a former Miss Wyoming who stalked her Mormon missionary lover, kidnapped him and held him hostage. Once caught, she jumped bail and hid out as a member of a mime troupe! Kate would be performing the role of Joyce McKinney Today.
JERI RYAN
Jeri herself states she will be reprising her role as Patrice Larue on Law & Order: SVU in the upcoming season; at least for two more episodes. And with both the surety that Michaela McManus will not be returning as ADA Kim Grelek and the uncertainty of Stephanie March’s future with L&O, wouldn’t it be lovely if Dick Wolf gave our Jeri an opportunity to jump over to the prosecution full-time?
MERYL STREEP
Meryl is a busy, busy woman! Here are the facts:
Her next movie, Julie & Julia, is due in theaters in the U.S on August 7, 2009. She plays Julia Child opposite her The Devil Wears Prada co-star, Stanley Tucci.
The animated film Fantastic Mr. Fox is in post-production with a projected release of November 13, 2009. Meryl lends her spectacular voice to the role of Mrs. Fox, performing alongside George Clooney, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Anjelica Houston, and Bill Murray!
Meryl is currently filming in an, as yet, untitled Nancy Meyers project. Her filming has taken her from NYC to the west coast; very near the home of our own Gloriously Tabu, who had some rather fascinating run-ins with the icon!
Now in production is The Ice at the Bottom of the World, where Meryl is rumored to star along with Jennifer Connelly and Charlize Theron. The film is about a retired Navy captain who returns home to find that his long-time absence has taken a huge toll on his family.
It is rumored that she will perform in the developing films Dewey (about a stray kitten who becomes the mascot for a small town library in Iowa) and Downsizing (a comedy also rumored to star Reese Witherspoon, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Paul Giamatti).
ANNE HATHAWAY
Anne, too, has been an extremely busy woman.
She will be performing as the White Queen in Tim Burton’s upcoming Alice in Wonderland, also starring Johnny Depp, Michael Sheen, Helena Bonham Carter, and Alan Rickman.
She is set to film in Garry Marshall’s romantic comedy Valentine’s Day, along with notable stars Julia Roberts, Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Biel, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Garner, and Ashton Kutcher.
Anne is rumored to feature in four upcoming projects: Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, as Judy Garland, Get Smart 2, reprising her role as Agent 99 opposite Steve Carell, The Opposite of Love, a romantic comedy about a commitment-phobic attorney and her ready-for-marriage boyfriend, and The Fiancé, another romantic comedy, this time about a woman who is seemingly engaged to the “perfect” man but decides to call off the wedding in order to find herself.
So what have our favorite ladies been doing lately? A LOT!
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