Madonna has found her Duchess of Windsor – and it’s all thanks to Margaret Thatcher.
The singer has injected some energy into her once troubled film W.E., about Edward VIII’s Abdication crisis and the so-called romance of the century between Edward and twice-divorced Wallis Simpson, by casting rising star Andrea Riseborough, who portrayed the young Mrs Thatcher in BBC drama The Long Walk To Finchley, as Mrs Simpson, who later became the Duchess of Windsor.
In W.E. (it stands for Wallis and Edward), the script calls for the Duchess’s age to range from late 20s to late 60s.
Colin Vaines, W.E.’s producer, told me Madonna was particularly struck by how well Andrea portrayed the former prime minister – and also by her performance as a schoolgirl in Sam Taylor Wood’s short film Love You More.
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A quick hello from Riikka, the co-founder of the site! I’m currently working on bringing the content of Abbie-Cornish.com up-to-date as it hasn’t been updated in quite a while.
I started by doing updates on the projects section. Film pages have been added for W.E. and The Dark Fields, Abbie’s two new films, and the information on Sucker Punch and Bright Star has been updated.
I also updated the Awards & Nominations page with details on the awards Abbie was nominated in 2010 and 2009 as well as updated the Rumored Projects with some details on Wuthering Heights, the film that Abbie dropped out of last year.
Don’t forget that you can follow the updates of Abbie Cornish Online over at Twitter @abbiecornishcom!
The IMAX Corporation has announced that Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch 3D will be released to IMAX theatres simultaneously with the film’s domestic release on March 25, 2011. The film is part of the big 20-movie deal signed between Warner Bros. and IMAX. The film stars Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm, Oscar Isaac and Scott Glenn. Here is a brief synopsis of the film…
Set in the 1950s, Sucker Punch 3D follows Babydoll (Emily Browning) who is confined to a mental institution by her stepfather, who intends to have her lobotomized in five days. While there, she imagines an alternative reality to hide her from the pain, and in that world, she begins planning her escape, needing to steal five objects to help get her out before she is deflowered by a vile man.
Source: 411 Mania
Bright Star (2009) 
The Dark Fields (2011) 
Sucker Punch (2011) 
W.E. (2011) 
