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Winslet is in: The Reader still on track

Published on January 8, 2008

Boy that was quick. Earlier today I reported on Variety breaking the news that Nicole Kidman was preggers and quicker than you can say the words "Keith Urban" it was confirmed that the leading role will go to Kate Winslet.

Apparently, Winslet "was the first choice but was unable to do the movie because of a scheduling conflict with Revolutionary Road. Kidman then took the role, and the filmmakers built in a hiatus to accommodate her when the production of the Baz Luhrmann-directed Australia" which went past the proposed production finish date.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).