Two time Oscar winner for Best Actress (Norma Rae, Places in the Heart) and current Boniva spokesperson Sally Field has been cast in Steven Spielberg's upcoming biopic about the life of Abraham Lincoln. Field will play opposite Daniel Day-Lewis as first lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
Field has been linked to the project since 2007 when Liam Neeson was set to play the 16th President of the United States. However, last week Spielberg reconfirmed Field's involvement and expressed his excitement to be working with her for the first time.
Personally I think this is a fantastic choice. Field has been in the industry since the mid 1960s and is still going strong at sixty-four. With two Best Actress Oscars under her belt, her acting talent is unquestioned. My only concern perhaps is her looks. Even at sixty-four Field is still an attractive woman, while the real Mary Todd Lincoln (as shown in the picture above) looks like Gollum's understudy from The Lord of the Rings. Then again if they can make Charlize Theron look like a hillbilly who opens beer bottles with her teeth, then I guess they can ugly up Sally Field.
Filming is set to begin on the project sometime this fall and will be based on the best selling book Team of Rivals by Pulitzer Prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The movie will focus mostly on Lincoln's presidency and involvement with the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. A release date is slated for late 2012. (Um hello? Oscars anyone?)
In the meantime Sally Field can be seen next summer as Peter Parker's Aunt May in The Amazing Spiderman. Steven Spielberg is set to release The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn and War Horse later this year.
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