American Pastoral Woman

This is your wife, Ewan McGregor.

Jennifer Connelly has been cast as McGregor’s wife in Phillip Noyce’s (The Giver) adaptation of American Pastoral.

Written by Philip Roth, the Vietnam era-set novel – which won a Pulitzer back in the late ’90s – tells the of a successful Jewish American businessman whose picture perfect upper middle class life shatters after his daughter commits a deadly act of political terrorism.

Connelly will play McGregor’s wife in the film, which will go into production in March.

Photo: Berlinale.de.