Freida Pinto joins Julian Schnabel ‘Miral’

The Cinderella story continues. Plucked from obscurity without any acting chops to her credit, the very easy on the eyes Freida Pinto has gone from Danny Boyle, to Woody Allen and has now landed an acting gig with Julian Schnabel. As previously reported, she is joining the excellent Hiam Abbas, Yasmine Elmasri, Alexander Siddig and Omar Metwally, the picture will start lensing on April 19th start, and should be ready for Cannes same time next year.

Details are thin right now on what part the Slumdog Millionnaire star will play, but Miral (scripted by Schnabel) is an adaptation of Italo-Palestinian Rula Jebreal’s book about Hind Husseini who founded an orphanage in Jerusalem in the wake of the 1948 partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel.