Posted on 05/08/2015 5:52:18 PM PDT by SMGFan
Natalie Portman will play Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in On the Basis of Sex, EW has confirmed. Deadline.com was first to report the news.
The film will follow Ginsburg’s life as she fights for equality in her career as the second (and first Jewish) female justice. Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl) is in negotiations to direct, with a script being written by Daniel Stiepleman.
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Could they make “Weekend with Ruthie?”, a la” Weekend with Bernie?” Of course, Ruth would have to be dead, but maybe she really is.?!
“Slap a wig on Steve Buscemi.”
Your remark is why I read FR aloud to my husband.
I know she is an Academy Award winner. No accounting for taste. I think she is a terrible actress — really really bad.
I actually thought the movie she won for Black Swan was one of the worst movies I ever saw. I do agree with you that the Academy is lacking in taste but the fact is that it is a very small group of Actresses ever to win it.
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