Hall Takes a Picture of ‘Dorian Gray’
Javier Bardem and Rebecca Hall in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rebecca Hall is turning up everywhere these days. She began appearing in made-for-television BBC productions when she was 12, then disappeared for a decade before reappearing as Sarah in Christopher Nolan’s underappreciated 2006 film The Prestige.
She’ll soon be seen in Woody Allen’s upcoming Vicky Cristina Barcelona (she plays Vicky) and later this year she’ll turn up in Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon. In 2009 she’ll appear in an untitled Nicole Holofcener comedy and star as Emily in Brontë, Charles Sturridge’s film about the famous literary sisters.
Today Variety’s Archie Thomas reports that she has signed on to Dorian Gray, Ealing Studios’ adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel. Ben Barnes will play the title character and Colin Firth recently took the role of Lord Henry Wotton. The film is directed by Oliver Parker who’d previously made two other Wilde adaptations for Ealing: An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest.
Ms. Hall’s involvement in the project officially puts Dorian Gray on the LiC radar. Is she the new Emily Blunt? How much longer until there is a rumor she’s playing Cat Woman?
Filed under: Casting, News, Pre-Production
Tags: Dorian Gray, Oliver Parker, Rebecca Hall
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She’ll play Cat Woman after she appears in Inglorious Bastards, and she’ll probably be in Nottingham, too, whenever it gets off the ground.
Hahah…I will not be surprised.
She looks great in the VCB trailer — Look, seÑOR — and I thought she quietly outshined ScarJo in The Prestige, as well. I think she’ll be perfect in the Sibyl Vane role, though Angela Lansbury is a hard act to follow.
I don’t know for sure who Emily Blunt is, so that joke is lost on me. I confuse her with Emily Mortimer (Transsiberian), Emmy Rossum (Poseidon), and Emily Watson (The Proposition). Thank you, IMDb.
Emily Blunt was most notably in Devil Wears Prada, but her name always seems to pop up and I equate her with the “hot English starlet of the moment.” Before her it was Kate Beckinsale
I guess it doesn’t help matters that I haven’t seen Devil Wears Prada. *shrug*
She’s pretty good. And pretty. I like brunettes, being one myself. Let’s hope she does some good work in all these good parts her agent’s got for her.
Me and the monkeys will be keeping an eye on her.
Does anybody know what role she plays in Frost/Nixon? IMDb is being coy about it.
I was wondering about that too. I just did a quick search and found nothing….apparently most everyone else relies on IMDb too.
imdb is actually the secret core of the Internet. All tubes lead to IMDB.
We need to overthrow their tyranny.
Fight the power! Embrace chaos, uncertainty, and inidivuality!
Sartre! Greetings from the US to NZ. I’m glad to see they’ve discovered the Internets there in Middle Earth.
sartre!!! You got online, even with all the competition!
Sadly the isolated part of Middle Earth I’m in offers connection speeds equlivalent to that of a sedated sloth. So I’ll be mostly a ghost in the internets machine for some time yet. Hell, LiC posts and comments are worth the 2 minutes it takes for a single page to open up. I should add that nearly every other part of the country has high speed connections. My compensation is the lush beauty of peaceful surrounds populated with a variety of birdlife, horses, sheep and newborn lambs, and cattle. It could be worse :-)
Ha Alison, others have gone for a walk on the farm with the dogs (the farm doesn’t have gumboots - a type of plastic footwear for sodden grass and mud - that fit my feet so I’m left behind). At least it gave me a turn online.
I don’t really remember her in The Prestige, but the female roles in that one were of the thankless support variety.
Off-topic, but you might enjoy this: a reader has posted a link on HE to Wells’s Bill O’Reilly appearance, and man, is it painful. The suckups are chirping “you was great, boss!” But — well, see for yourself.
Not so tough when he can’t ban people.
I just watched that. The sad thing is that he seems to think he was a little better than he really was.
And yeah, there are a lot more suck-ups there then there were when I was a regular.
Hey, sartre. It’s about time you graced us with your compelling presence.
Hope you’ll be back soon. We all miss you a lot.
The place isn’t the same without you…
I miss you a great deal, Sartre. Don’t go too far beyond the Shire, my friend.
I liked her in The Prestige, which was in my top ten a couple years ago. I hate it when film critics judge a magic movie entirely on how good the magic illusion is. Especially since Bale was fantastic in it.
Emily Blunt’s best performance that I’ve seen was in My Summer of Love. That’s the role that convinced me about her. It’s kinda weird that release of The Young Victoria is a month away and we haven’t heard much about it.
Emily Blunt was smoking hot in My Summer of Love and pretty good at the acting too. Well, she’s been smoking hot in everything she’s been in, but I couldn’t finish Prada and everyone says that was her best performance.
Good luck to Rebecca Hall.
I haven’t caught My Summer of Love. I might have to fix that.
Craig, MSOL is a boring, ridiculous crapfest.
But that’s only me talking.
It may be all three of those things, but it also has Emily Blunt in it so it stays on the list.
I never said My Summer of Love was a great movie, I said Blunt was good in it and smoking hot. I’d agree you’re right, Miranda, that it didn’t really live up to it’s hype or premise and kinda fizzled overall. However, you can argue about her acting, but I’m standing by the smoking hot.
Lesbi-teen + Emily Blunt = MSOL (One of my guilty pleasures…)
For me, Ms. Blunt stole the show in Prada, Charlie Wilson’s War and The Jane Austen Book Club as well. I cannot get enough of her.
Meryl Streep said about her: “Emily is the smartest young actress I’ve worked with in the last 10 years – and possibly ever.” She is going places indeed.
As for Ms. Hall, I adore her too, she was great in “The Prestige” but even more so (for me anyway) in “Starter for 10.”
joel, I adore you.
Your opinions and your taste are beyond excellent and I think you know what you’re talking about.
I pass on Ms. Blunt all the way around. I don’t get the hype on any level and if I never saw her in anything again it wouldn’t bother me.
Granted, I’m a girl who digs boys. So my take isn’t worth beans.
But I’ve seen quite a number of smoking hot women in my day. Personally, Ms. Blunt wouldn’t be anywhere near my list.