{"id":29968,"date":"2013-08-08T07:45:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=29968"},"modified":"2020-01-08T08:11:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T13:11:49","slug":"brie-larson-may-be-contender-for-james-ponsoldts-rodham-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/08\/brie-larson-may-be-contender-for-james-ponsoldts-rodham-biopic\/","title":{"rendered":"Brie Larson May Be Contender For James Ponsoldt&#8217;s RODHAM Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/BrieLarson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29969\" alt=\"BrieLarson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/BrieLarson.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once Carey Mulligan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/12\/carey-mulligan-rodham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">turned down<\/a> the lead in director James Ponsoldt&#8217;s Hillary Clinton biopic <strong>Rodham<\/strong>, the net was cast wide to find another actress to take on the role. One of those caught up in its reach is Brie Larson.<\/p>\n<p>While on the press junket for the upcoming <strong>Short Term 12<\/strong>, the actress told <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140412013547\/http:\/\/upandcomers.net\/2013\/08\/07\/brie-larson-rodham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Up &amp; Commers<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2013\/08\/07\/brie-larson-is-interested-in-playing-hillary-clinton-in-james-ponsoldts-rodham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bleeding Cool<\/a>) that she had been sent a copy of writer Young Il Kim&#8217;s screenplay and she \u201cwould definitely be interested in the role\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They\u2019ve sent me the script. I just haven\u2019t been able to read anything lately. I have a stack of scripts and I\u2019m just\u2026maybe, I have a long flight coming up, maybe I can read it then\u2026 But yeah, I\u2019m interested.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can see how any actress would be interested in the role. There is definitely a surfeit of strong roles for women in Hollywood, and Kim&#8217;s script, which landed on the number 4 spot on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/17\/footbal-drama-draft-day-heads-2012-black-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> last year&#8217;s Black List<\/a>, definitely provides one in this story of a young Yale Law graduate working her way up the Washington, DC ladder but who is simultaneously being pulled away from it by her Arkansas politican boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>And it is possible that Larson has an inside track, having already worked with director Ponsoldt on <strong>The Spectacular Now<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">She&#8217;s just got to give the script a read first.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/08\/brie-larson-may-be-contender-for-james-ponsoldts-rodham-biopic\/\" title=\"Brie Larson May Be Contender For James Ponsoldt&#8217;s RODHAM Biopic\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[6663,6479,6478],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-brie-larson","8":"tag-james-ponsoldt","9":"tag-rodham"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29968"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=29968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}