Gillian Anderson has scrapped plans to star as Ernest Hemingway’s wife Matrha Gellhorn on the big screen – because Nicole Kidman is filming the same "exact story" in another project.
The X-Files star spent two years developing a biopic of the author and his war reporter wife.
But Anderson has abandoned the movie following news that Oscar-winner Kidman and Clive Owen have signed up to star in Hemingway & Gellhorn, James Gandolfini’s upcoming TV movie for HBO.
And the actress blames herself for taking too long to perfect the script.
She tells Britain’s Daily Express, “The sad news is I have to let go of Gellhorn as HBO is doing the exact story with Nicole and Clive Owen. But these things happen and I was taking too long getting the script right and it’s my own damned fault.”
