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Emma Watsonhas been tapped to join the A-list cast of Greta Gerwig’s cinematic adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’sLittle Women.
While her exact role remains unknown at present,EW confirmsthat it was the same characterEmma Stone was previously rumored to play. According to areport inVariety, Stone was forced to bow out of the film because it conflicted with promotional obligations for herupcoming movie,The Favourite.
The film will reunite the auteur with Ronan, who starred in last year’sLady Bird— the Gerwig-helmed project that earned five Oscar nominations.
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Written in 1868, Alcott’s novel tells the tale of four sisters coming of age in Civil War-torn America. A big-budget version of the book hit the big screen in 1994, starring Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, and Christian Bale.
This won’t be Watson’s first period piece. Last year she appeared in thelive-action remake of Disney’sBeauty and the Beastto critical and commercial acclaim. Ironically, her involvement precluded her from appearing inLa La Land —and the film that ultimately earned Stone the 2017 Best Actress Oscar.
“I knew I had horse training, I knew I had dancing, I knew I had three months of singing ahead of me, and I knew I had to be in London to really do that,”Watson said during a SiriusXM Town Hall in March 2017. “And this wasn’t a movie I could just kind of parachute into. I knew I had to do the work, and I had to be where I had to be. So scheduling conflict-wise, it just didn’t work out.”
source: people.com
