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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 9, 2018 2:22:30 GMT
Interesting that this news wasn’t mentioned by Variety or THR. I mean she is a very hot actress right now, doesn’t? Even if she is mainly a TV actress! Actually probably the new real stars are all from TV! People go to see superheroes at the movie theatre but new popular actors are from TV! That’s my theory, anyway!
Another theory: maybe they are waiting to confirm the other male star! Penkovsky should be a very important part! In theory more relevant than hers (but I haven’t read the script so I could be wrong!). I was thinking which actor with a similar age and relevant name as Cumberbatch could play him and I thought in Fassbender. They could go for a real Russian, of course! But I was thinking in big names! Then I thought it could polemic if they hire someone like him with the Me Too stuff! He was accused of DV years ago and he seems to have a low profile recently! Actually I checked his IMDb entry and it seems he is busy preparing for his new movie, Kung Fury 2 with Arnold Schwarzenegger and David Hasselhoff (WTF?!!! I guess they went for all the German sounding names in Hollywood!!!) He did another X-men movie, too!
Anyway I thought he would be great for the role of a mysterious and probably dangerous man who should be contacted by the ordinary British guy played by BC.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 9, 2018 2:41:14 GMT
Random tweet! I hope it’s true!
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 11, 2018 16:07:42 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 11, 2018 16:18:13 GMT
I guess one of those two guys is Penkovsky but who?  That actress is very young! I seriously thought for a minute she was playing his daughter! Maybe his wife was very young, of course!
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Post by MagdaFR on Oct 11, 2018 16:22:18 GMT
Jessie Buckley is very good! I watched some days ago "Beast" where she's the lead.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 11, 2018 16:27:05 GMT
And teh real wife was indeed very young looking: 
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Post by mllemass on Oct 11, 2018 16:42:27 GMT
Sure, she looked young when she was young!
I looked up Greville Wynne’s biography. This actress is 12 years younger than Benedict, but in real life his wife was only two years younger. They married when he was 27 and she was 25. They divorced, and he remarried when he was 51. He then separated from his second wife. He had a child, but there’s no more information about it.
So maybe the wife’s character is only in the movie when they show the early part of his life, when they were both much younger. I guess they’ll have makeup to make Benedict look younger for those scenes.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 11, 2018 17:06:44 GMT
That photo is of her "waiting" for him when he was in prision in Russia! She was very involve with the campaigning for his freedom so I guess she will be shown during that part of the story. There are a lot of stock photos of her during that time: www.alamy.com/stock-photo/british-businessman-greville-wynne.htmlMaybe he wasn't much older but he definitely looked older! The blond girl is his second wife and she also looks very young!
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Post by MagdaFR on Oct 12, 2018 0:05:02 GMT
That actress is very young! I seriously thought for a minute she was playing his daughter! Maybe his wife was very young, of course! That's one of the problems with some productions.The actresses are too young for the characters they are playing and compared to the male actors. In this production there are already two very young actresses. The character of the CIA handler played by Brosnahan is invented according to a guy on twitter who seems to know what he's saying. There was a woman who was the contact with Penkovsky: Janet Chisholm. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_ChisholmNow that I looked at her page I see she was 10 years younger than Greville, so Rachel Brosnahan's age isn't that bad. Why diid they change the nationality? 
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 12, 2018 2:56:17 GMT
Because they wanted an American? I would said that I remembered to have read about her but then I thought no she was Russian and was married to a Russian and she was the one giving the info to the British agents then I remembered I was thinking in one of the subplots of the last Le Carre book!!!
I doubted when I saw the photo in that article but I think now I actually like Jessie Buckley’s casting! Having seen the photos, I think she looks the part even when she is very young. She looks like the real person and BC with his super short hair, too! I was more confused by Rachel Brosnahan‘s casting! That new info gave a little context, tho.! Probably she will be an amalgam of Chisholm and other character?
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