Therese, as the planned film was called, would be directed by Charlie Stratton, who had directed a play based on the novel. At one time, Kate Winslet was set to star. At another time, Gerard Butler was to be the hunky artist and Jessica Biel would be Therese, with Glenn Close as the cruel aunt who forces Therese to marry her son. Olsen came on board, despite that tortured production history, with Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter pictures) as the cousin/husband, Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis) as the tall, dark artist and Oscar winner Jessica Lange as the heartless aunt who becomes Therese’s mother-in-law. “The fact that Kate Winslet was originally attached to the film, and that she ended up reading the book on tape, made me even more interested in it,” Olsen says. “If somebody as good as her wanted to do it — and I listened to an interview of her talking about why she wanted to make it — I had to make this film. I have such huge respect for her and her taste.” —
Posted on: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 01:00:29 +0000
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