Fashion maven Ford adds actors to directing debut

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Ginnifer Goodwin and Nicholas Hoult are about to make fashion designer Tom Ford less of "A Single Man."

The pair join Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode in Ford's directorial debut, an adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel.

Goodwin is Mrs. Strunk, a suburban mom who doesn't share her husband's dislike of their neighbor, a gay professor (Firth). Hoult will play Kenny, a sexually ambiguous grad student who shows an unusual interest in the professor.

Principal photography begins this week in Los Angeles.

Best known as Hugh Grant's young co-star in "About a Boy," Hoult re-emerged as a star overseas on BBC America's hit UK series "Skins." "Big Love" star Goodwin next appears in the ensemble romantic comedy "He's Just Not That Into You."

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