{"id":132,"date":"2006-06-21T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/21\/latest-casting-rumors-for-big-screen-the-other-boleyn-girl\/"},"modified":"2020-06-04T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T23:11:07","slug":"latest-casting-rumors-for-big-screen-the-other-boleyn-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/21\/latest-casting-rumors-for-big-screen-the-other-boleyn-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest casting rumors for big screen &#8220;The Other Boleyn Girl&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of news alerts came in overnight with the news that Natalie Portman and Eric Bana are in negotiations to play Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII in the big screen version of Philippa Gregory&#8217;s &#8220;The Other Boleyn Girl&#8221;. I had previously heard Keira Knightly&#8217;s name bandied about for Anne, which I thought was a good choice, but I&#8217;m sure Portman will be good as well. Star Wars fans might remember that the two actresses shared the role of Queen Amidala and the handmaid\/bodyguard\/decoy in Episode I &#8220;The Phantom Menace&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here are links to some of the articles that came up with my Google news alerts:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Boleyn&#8217; turns heads &#8211; Variety<\/p>\n<p>Portman and Bana flirting with &#8216;Boleyn&#8217; &#8211; Hollywood Reporter<\/p>\n<p>Off with her head! &#8211; Empire<\/p>\n<p>Eric Bana to play King Henry VIII &#8211; Moviehole<\/p>\n<p>(original links have expired and have been removed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of news alerts came in overnight with the news that Natalie Portman and Eric Bana are in negotiations to play Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII in the big screen version of Philippa Gregory&#8217;s &#8220;The Other Boleyn Girl&#8221;. I had previously heard Keira Knightly&#8217;s name bandied about for Anne,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/21\/latest-casting-rumors-for-big-screen-the-other-boleyn-girl\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12883,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/12883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}