Gillian Anderson Retracts Role as Ernest Hemingway's Wife

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She was planning a biopic about the author for two years before HBO decided to pick up a project which has similar storyline.

July 8, 2010

AceShowbiz - Gillian Anderson has scrapped plans to star as Ernest Hemingway's wife Martha Gellhorn on the big screen - because Nicole Kidman is filming the same "exact story" in another project.

The "X-Files" star spent two years developing a biopic of the author and his war reporter wife. But Anderson has abandoned the movie following news that Oscar-winner Kidman and Clive Owen have signed up to star in "Hemingway & Gellhorn", James Gandolfini's upcoming TV movie for U.S. channel HBO.

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And the actress blames herself for taking too long to perfect the script. She tells Britain's Daily Express, "The sad news is I have to let go of Gellhorn as HBO is doing the exact story with Nicole and Clive Owen. But these things happen and I was taking too long getting the script right and it's my own damned fault."

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