Rebecca Hall has joined the cast of Ealing Studios’ Dorian Gray, their retelling of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel, The Picture Of Dorian Gray.
It hasn’t been confirmed yet who the rather lovely Hall – the daughter of Sir Peter Hall – will play, but we’re guessing that she’ll be Sibyl Vane, an actress who falls in love with the hedonistic Dorian (played by Ben Barnes), who remains forever young while his portrait ages instead.
Hall is slowly but surely making a name for herself – after notable turns in The Prestige and Starter For Ten, she can next be seen in Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona. So fair play to her for doing a British film next when she could have decamped to Hollywood to give that a crack.
But Hall isn’t alone in joining the cast of Oliver Parker’s movie, which is currently shooting. In fact, roughly half the population of Britain has signed on in one fell swoop, with Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Max Irons (Jeremy Irons’ son, and not – as Empire thought – a really kick-ass anti-creasing product), Fiona Shaw, Pip Torrens, Douglas Henshall, Caroline Goodall, Michael Culkin, Johnny Harris, Hugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub all signing on the line that is dotted.
And that, dear readers, is one hell of a cast. Fingers crossed for this one.