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Coriolanus (2011)Actor GERARD BUTLER is to play legendary Scottish poet ROBERT BURNS in an upcoming biopic.
The 300 star will take the title role alongside Julia Stiles in the film, which will detail Burns’ love affairs with wife Jean Armour and society hostess Agnes ‘Clarinda’ McLehose.
And the Scot admits he is delighted to have landed the part, because he is proud of his country’s national figure.
He says, “In a way but I feel so lucky to have that opportunity because it’s such a great story. I cajoled Julia Stiles into doing it but she told me it was the best script she’d read in years so she’s on board. We cover Burns’ life from the ploughman days to the Edinburgh society days and his take-off as a poet. It’s beautiful, it’s passionate, it’s sexy, it’s hilarious and it’s really quite sad as well.”
Posted by Mary on January 26, 2009 under Movies, News • Comments: 1
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HELLO! My name is Rute i’m from Portugal and i am a fan of Gerri´s whork i´m very happy because of is next role doing ROBERT BURNS , i saw is biographi on the internet and i thougt to my self ” this could only be for GERARD BUTLER “.GERRI i think you are the most hard working actor i ever new, i wish you the best of luck and i hope that one day i will be mething you and talk with you abaugt the great films that you have done in your life .NEXT THE OSCAR !