Katherine Heigl is No Longer Angela Lansbury's Mother
Katherine Heigl is No Longer Angela Lansbury's Mother
#1Katherine Heigl is No Longer Angela Lansbury's Mother
Posted: 11/16/10 at 12:38pm
Last week the legendary Angela Lansbury, who is currently filming Mr. Popper's Penguins with Jim Carrey, signed to star in 'Adaline'.
Long ago, Katherine Heigl (Adaline) was killed in a car accident, until a simultaneous lightning strike resuscitated her and physiologically locked her in her late 20s. Adaline lives a solitary existence until she meets a man worth losing her immortality to grow old with. Lansbury plays her daughter, who, in her mid-80s, needs her mother's care as her health declines.
Well, yesterday Katherine Heigl withdrew from Adaline. Rumor has is she was fired after disagreements with Lakeshore.
More here: http://www.deadline.com/2010/11/katherine-heigl-out-of-adaline/
I wonder why Angela Lansbury, with all her talents and accolades, can't get the roles that Vanessa Redgrave and Dames Judi, Maggie and Eileen are getting and has to settle for films like this?
#2Katherine Heigl is No Longer Angela Lansbury's Mother
Posted: 11/16/10 at 12:45pmWell, I don't know much about the movie but I love Lansbury and am not a Heigl fan at all. I honestly would not have planned to see the movie had Heigl stayed on.
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#2Katherine Heigl is No Longer Angela Lansbury's Mother
Posted: 11/16/10 at 12:59pmWell I really wanted Angela to play Neville's grandmother in one of the Harry Potter films, but apparently no one else did.
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#3Katherine Heigl is No Longer Angela Lansbury's Mother
Posted: 11/16/10 at 1:12pmAll those dames aren't really getting that many plum film roles themselves, are they? Vanessa Redgrave was in that one movie with the Mamma Mia girl. I don't really see Lansbury in that role. And Maggie Smith doesn't act anymore, does she?
#4Katherine Heigl is No Longer Angela Lansbury's Mother
Posted: 11/16/10 at 1:23pm
Dame Maggie Smith never stopped working and very much active nowadays.
She has a very good role in Downton Abbey, now she's filming The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel with a great cast and a very talented director and she also set to star in Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut Quartet, again great talents all around. In 2007 Dame Maggie was diagnosed with breast cancer, so that kept her away from work for a while.
Vanessa Redgrave had a truly great role in Atonement as Older Briony. She has four movies set to release in 2011. In one of them she's playing Queen Elizabeth I.
#5Katherine Heigl is No Longer Angela Lansbury's Mother
Posted: 11/16/10 at 2:06pmWhen I was at a show recently, I overheard a group of nearby teens talking about Driving Miss Daisy and how "that old lady from Letters to Juliet" was in it. That broke my heart.
#6Katherine Heigl is No Longer Angela Lansbury's Mother
Posted: 11/16/10 at 2:34pm
awwwww....
I'm a large Heigl fan (Grey's Anatomy is my little indulgence haha) was hoping she'd be in something soon, and the plot to this sounded flimsy and fun!
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#7Katherine Heigl is No Longer Angela Lansbury's Mother
Posted: 11/16/10 at 3:09pm
My bad. I found the Times article I was thinking of and she was saying that breast cancer had left her too tired for stage work, not film work.
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