The Rebel’s Wife

Keri Russell is potentially getting nasty with Matthew McConaughey.

And I do mean that in a far less tabloid-y way than it sounds.

See, the star of FX’s The Americans has joined the Oscar winner’s The Free State of Jones, a chronicle of the impact a slave woman (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) had on a soldier’s life and of the rebellion he led against the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Russell will portray McConaughey’s first wife; she leaves him early on, only to see him again, years later, now common-law-married to the slave woman.

Methinks she will not take kindly to that.... The character, that is, of course.

Meanwhile, Mahershala Ali (Netflix’s House of Cards, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1) also has been cast in the Gary Ross-directed 2016 film, as a runaway slave that the McConacharacter comes to appreciate and think of as an equal.

Photo: GotCeleb.com.