Rodrigo Garcia is Glenn Close’s Choice for ‘Albert Nobbs’

Having worked with him twice before, Glenn Close is taking a beloved play she starred in, perhaps wore a fake beard for and is shepherding the project for Rodrigo Garcia to direct for a silver screen translation. Close has already worn many hats (she co-produces and co-wrote) The Singular Life Of Albert Nobbs, which is being prepped to shoot in July and by the time it is finished, Garcia will probably be hitting the pavement to promote what might be a highlight in his, and Annette Bening’s career with Mother and Child (the pic received some flattering reviews in the acting department at TIFF last September, and I’ve yet to see if it gathered more steam from playing at Sundance a couple of weeks back. Also on board we find, Orlando Bloom, Michael Gambon and Janet McTeer.

Set in a luxury hotel in Dublin, Albert Nobbs is a Gosford Park-style “below stairs” drama featuring Close as a woman in Nineteenth Century Ireland who disguises herself as a man in order to survive.