Katherine Heigl is No Longer Angela Lansbury's Mother

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?

Well 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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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.

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!