What is ‘Pippa Lee’ and Why are These Big Names Starring in It?
This one completely flew passed my radar
Have you heard of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee? It is going to be directed by Daniel Day-Lewis’ wife Rebecca Miller, who also wrote the film from her forthcoming novel. She has lined up Robin Wright Penn, Julianne Moore, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Alan Arkin and Monica Bellucci. Yeah, quite a list eh? You would think it is going to be some sort of animated film and this is the voice talent based on the title, but nope, it’s a live-action drama.
The story centers on a dutiful 50-year-old wife whose husband falls for a younger woman, freeing her to explore her buried sensuality and leading to a very quiet nervous breakdown. Robin Wright Penn plays the title character.
Arkin is the husband who leaves Wright Penn for Ryder. Bellucci will play his first wife.
Reeves will play Wright Penn’s younger lover, while Gyllenhaal plays Wright Penn’s diet pill-addicted mother in flashback sequences. Moore is a lesbian novelist.
The film is scheduled to begin principal photography in April in Connecticut.
Rebecca Miller last directed Day-Lewis in The Ballad of Jack and Rose.
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