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| Carey Mulligan is in pole position to play the young Hillary Clinton in forthcoming biopic Rodham, ahead of Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Chastain and Emma Stone, according to the Hollywood Reporter. | Carey Mulligan is in pole position to play the young Hillary Clinton in forthcoming biopic Rodham, ahead of Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Chastain and Emma Stone, according to the Hollywood Reporter. |
| She is due to meet director James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now) for talks, with both sides said to be keen to reach an agreement. The Bafta-winning British star of An Education is producers' top choice but is by no means certain to take the role, and other actors are still being considered. | She is due to meet director James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now) for talks, with both sides said to be keen to reach an agreement. The Bafta-winning British star of An Education is producers' top choice but is by no means certain to take the role, and other actors are still being considered. |
| Screenwriter Young Il Kim's drama, which was included on the 2012 Black List of the best unproduced screenplays, centres on the future first lady and US secretary of state as she vacillates between her legal career and the attentions of a charming young suitor from Arkansas in the 1970s. Its synopsis reads: "During the height of the Watergate scandal, rising star Hillary Rodham is the youngest lawyer chosen for the house judiciary committee to impeach Nixon, but she soon finds herself forced to choose between a destined path to the White House and her unresolved feelings for Bill Clinton, her former boyfriend who now teaches law in Arkansas." | Screenwriter Young Il Kim's drama, which was included on the 2012 Black List of the best unproduced screenplays, centres on the future first lady and US secretary of state as she vacillates between her legal career and the attentions of a charming young suitor from Arkansas in the 1970s. Its synopsis reads: "During the height of the Watergate scandal, rising star Hillary Rodham is the youngest lawyer chosen for the house judiciary committee to impeach Nixon, but she soon finds herself forced to choose between a destined path to the White House and her unresolved feelings for Bill Clinton, her former boyfriend who now teaches law in Arkansas." |
| Mulligan, 28, recently appeared as Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's remake of The Great Gatsby and will next be seen in the Coen brothers' Cannes film festival hit Inside Llewyn Davis. | Mulligan, 28, recently appeared as Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's remake of The Great Gatsby and will next be seen in the Coen brothers' Cannes film festival hit Inside Llewyn Davis. |
| Rodham was at the centre of controversy last month when it emerged that the film was being primed to tie in with its subject's mooted presidential run in three years' time. Deadline said the biopic would be released to coincide with the 2016 primaries. Hillary Clinton, who lost out to Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic contest to run for the presidency, is considered a favourite to stand again in three years' time. | Rodham was at the centre of controversy last month when it emerged that the film was being primed to tie in with its subject's mooted presidential run in three years' time. Deadline said the biopic would be released to coincide with the 2016 primaries. Hillary Clinton, who lost out to Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic contest to run for the presidency, is considered a favourite to stand again in three years' time. |