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Roodt’s Winnie Mandela Biopic
Wed, 18 Nov 2009
In what South Africans might view as an unusual bit of casting, Variety reports that Oscar-winner and ex-American Idol finalist Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, Sex and The City, The Secret Life of Bees) has been signed to play the controversial Winnie Mandela in the independent film, Winnie. Oscar-nominated Darrell James Roodt (Yesterday, Sarafina! Cry, the Beloved Country) will direct.
According to Variety, the film starts shooting on 30 May in Johannesburg, Cape Town, the Transeki and Robben Island, where Winnie’s former husband, Nelson Mandela, was was incarcerated for 18 of his 27 years in prison.
The script is written by Roodt, Andre Pieterse and Paul L Johnson, based on Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob’s Winnie Mandela: A Life.
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