Sunday, October 25, 2015

The Swedish Jessica Chastain?

It has become clear that Rebecca Ferguson won the summer.

The Swedish newcomer, the undisputed breakout star of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, already has joined The Girl on the Train (after flirting with Gambit), is so on demand. She’s so on demand, she is giving me major Jessica Chastain vibes.

Ferguson, you see, is uniquely positioned to be in a lot of great projects. She already is set to pop up in Meryl Streep’s Florence Foster Jenkins, and – lucky her! – she is poised to star opposite Michael Fassbender in not one but two new projects. The first is the Prometheus sequel, and the other is The Snowman, a procedural based on a successful book series about an idiosyncratic Oslo detective named Harry Hole, who is investigating the murder of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around a snowman.

And she might be taking over for Kate Winslet in Guernsey (aka The Guernsey Literary Society and Potato Peel Pie Society).

Not bad, no?

Photo: GettyImages.co.jp.

Update 1: Speaking of La Winslet (because I did, ever so briefly and in passing), she is going to play 1920s photography muse-cum-photograpger Lee Miller in a new biopic.

Update 2: The Girl on the Train is scheduled for an Oct. 27 release – Oct. 27, 2016 – and Joys Édgar Ramírez also has gotten a ticket to the fun.

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