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Nicole Kidman to Play Photographer Diane Arbus
By James Wray Mar 7, 2005, 7:43 GMT
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Diane Arbus pictured on the cover of Patricia Bosworth's biography of the photographer |
The movie is Biopic of photographer Diane Arbus in, the seminal American photographer. Kidman will replace Samantha Morton who had been in talks to play the part.
Arbus, who already had a history of severe depressions and a crumbling marriage by the time she began to take the controversial, technically innovative pictures of dwarfs, nudists and drag queens that won her a reputation as "a photographer of freaks." She committed suicide in 1971.
"Fur" will be directed by Steven Shainberg fom a screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson. The movie being partly adpated from Patricia Bosworth's biography, which you can read more about in our database.
Robert Downey Jr. is also cast and filming begins this May in New York.
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In his diary for the Daily Telegraph (UK) that he is going to NY tomorrow for talks to star as Kidman's husband. I hope it works out because he is brilliant.
when will the film be released in the U.K?
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peytonlewis2004@yahoo.comMar 26th, 2005 - 13:18:41
The movie sounds interesting. Will Damian Lewis be in the cast? I hope so.
joanne davis
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