Monday, September 12, 2011

"My Week With Marilyn"

The beautiful and talented Michelle Williams is cast to play Marilyn Monroe in the upcoming film directed by Simon Curtis titled My Week with Marilyn, the 31 year old actress appears to be pulling such the iconic persona very well. Photographed by Mario Testino for the cover of the October issue of American Vogue, “the film tracks Monroe during a week she abandoned her Hollywood career to spend time with Colin Clark (Redmayne), a lovely assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, who escorted Monroe around Britain after her new husband, playwright Arthur Miller left the country”. The script is based on the 1956 diaries of British filmmaker Colin Clark. Others starring in the movie are Eddie Redmayne (The Other Boleyn Girl), Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Dominic Cooper (An Education), Emma Watson, and Julia Ormond.
The world premiere will be October 9th at the New York Film Festival.