Scacchi joins Thompson, cast in "Brideshead"
CANNES, France (Hollywood Reporter) - Greta Scacchi has been added to the cast of the big-screen adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited," to be directed by Julian Jarrold.
Scacchi will play Lord Marchmain's lover.
The movie, which begins shooting on location in the U.K. at the beginning of June before moving to Venice and Morocco, already counts Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode and Hayley Atwell in its cast.
The story was brought to the small screen in Granada Television's acclaimed 1981 miniseries starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews, which aired stateside on PBS.
The movie is set in the years before World War II, when Oxford student Charles Ryder (Goode) gets entangled with the Marchmains, a seductive but troubled family of aristocrats.
Whishaw plays the alcoholic Sebastian and Atwell his enigmatic sister, Julia, between whom Charles is caught in a forbidden love triangle.
Gambon will play dissolute patriarch Lord Marchmain, and Thompson his devout and controlling wife.
Miramax Films has North American rights to the feature, whose script is by Andrew Davies ("Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason") and Jeremy Brock ("The Last King of Scotland").
Scacchi's recent credits include "Flightplan" and the AMC miniseries "Broken Trail."
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
