Paramount ‘Pray’ for Bardem to Join

If Javier Bardem is concerned with his public or filmic image, he won’t be getting any negative publicity if he takes on the role of: a middle aged woman gives herself a gift of self awareness as she starts her life over. Paramount Pictures have got themselves an easy top grossing box office winner (the book has sold 5 million copies) in Eat, Pray, Love, and now they may have an Oscar winner in the Spanish actor. This would make it two signings in two weeks for the actor – we are still awaiting confirmation on whether he takes on the villain role for Ollie Stone’s Money Never Speaks (Wall Street 2).

Based on the Elizabeth Gilbert memoir, Gilbert had a husband, a big apartment and a weekend home and was trying to get pregnant, until she realized that wasn’t the life she wanted. After a painful divorce, she set off on a journey of self-discovery around the world. Bardem will play Felipe, the man Gilbert meets and falls in love with on the final leg of a journey. Richard Jenkins plays a Texan whom the heroine befriends at an Indian ashram.

Bardem will next been seen in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Biutiful.