Catherine Zeta Jones Says "Nein" To Nine
Bad news, musical lovers - it looks like Catherine Zeta-Jones won't be dusting off her dancing shoes anytime soon! The Academy-award-winning actress had originally been cast in the role of Claudia in Nine, the big-screen adaptation of the Broadway adaptation of Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (whew!) - but now the New York Daily News is reporting that she's dropped out following a dispute about the prominence of her role. According to a source, she even went as far as asking director Rob Marshall to ask writer Michael Tolkin to give her a few more lines; Marshall apparently responded that "[Nine is] an ensemble story. It always has been." Sounds like Marshall's got a serious vision for Nine - it must take a big, swinging pair of brass ones to tell an Oscar-winner (for a role in a musical, no less!) that you won't be expanding her part!
We're especially sorry that we won't get to see Catherine playing opposite the rest of Nine's cast - Javier Bardem? Penelope Cruz? Sophia Loren? Wow!
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