Claire’s Crowning glory as she lands $4m Dragon Tattoo role
SHE is hot favourite to scoop the top award at tonight’s ‘TV Oscars’ for her brilliant portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in The Crown.
And now Claire Foy is set to earn her biggest pay day yet – a reported $4m– to star as Lisbeth Salander in the sequel to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Foy, 33, beat dozens of other hopefuls to win the coveted role in the $115m production of The Girl In The Spider’s Web, which is due to start filming in Berlin in January.
The movie is based on a fourth book, written by David Lagercrantz following the death of original author Stieg Larsson, who created the character.
American actress Rooney Mara, 32, starred alongside Daniel Craig in the 2011 Hollywood adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
The next two books in the series – The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest – were due to be filmed but difficulties with the script delayed the projects. The plan now is to ‘reboot’ the series by filming the fourth book as a sequel before possibly returning to previous books. Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, 37, previously starred in Swedish versions of the original trilogy.
A top Hollywood producer said last night: ‘This was the role every young actress in Hollywood was after. LIZ To LIsBETH: Mara as Lisbeth, Foy as the Queen Claire is a star very much on the rise after The Crown and everyone expects her to become a major force in Hollywood.’
She is among a number of actors from this side of the pond hoping for gongs in tonight’s Emmy awards in Los Angeles.
Other favourites to win Emmys – considered the ‘Oscars of television’ – include 13-year-old Millie Bobby Brown from England, who plays enigmatic Eleven in the hit Netflix sci-fi show Stranger Things, and James Corden for best talk show.
The Crown has bagged 13 nominations, while Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes is vying for best actor against Welsh actor Matthew Rhys for hit spy drama The Americans. Anthony Hopkins and Thandie Newton are both up for Westworld and Hugh Laurie is favourite as a guest in a comedy for Veep.