Olivia Williams Courted To Play Eleanor Roosevelt Role In 'Hyde Park On The Hudson'

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Olivia Williams has emerged as the front runner to play Eleanor Roosevelt the Roger Michell-directed Hyde Park on the Hudson for Focus Features. She is in talks to join her Rushmore co-star Bill Murray, who plays Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Laura Linney, who’ll play FDR’s distant cousin and mistress. The Richard Nelson-scripted film is about a visit by King George VI to Hyde Park, the upstate New York home of the Roosevelt family in 1939. While the stakes are high-momentum was building toward WWII-the trip also happened as FDR’s wife discovered his affair with his cousin.

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