Kate Hudson’s falling in love with Ken Watanabe. Not the latest Hollywood dating scandal, but the casting for Bruce Beresford’s latest drama.
The Evelyn director is making A Dream Of Red Mansions, an epic romance that uses the 1949 Chinese Revolution as the setting for a love affair between an American photojournalist (Hudson) and a Chinese Revolutionary (Watanabe, presumably balancing the scales by playing a Chinese man after starring opposite Chinese actresses playing Japanese geisha). With a script by Donald Martin and a shoot set for October in Taiwan, the film will be up for sale at the Cannes film festival.