Paul Schneider is getting another role in a high profile film. Schneider and Kerry Fox have joined the cast of Jane Campion’s (The Piano, In the Cut) Bright Star, a period pic about English poet John Keats and his secret love affair with the girl next door.
The film stars Ben Whishaw as Keats and Abbie Cornish as Fanny Brawne, the poet’s muse. The passionate relationship was cut short when Keats died aged just 25.
Schneider will play Keats’ best friend, Charles Armitage Brown, and Fox will play Fanny’s mother.
My big question here is will hehave to use a British accent? After doing some research (two minutes on Wikipedia) I learned that Charles was born in London, the son of a merchant or stockbroker. I hope Campion goes The Last Temptation of Christ route and has the actors speak in their natural voices. I'm not so sure I could buy Rico Rice sporting a fake cockney accent.
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