Brie Larson set to play feminist icon Woodhull
BRIE Larson is set to play the first woman to run to be President of the United States. The ‘Kong: Skull Island’ star will take on the role of feminist icon Victoria Woodhull, who was the first female to run for office in America in 1872, in the forthcoming Amazon movie, according t o Deadline. The 27year-old actress will take on producing duties alongside Lloud Braun and Andrew Mittman and ‘The Libertine’ writer Ben Kolpit is working on the script.
Woodhull was one of 10 children who grew up in the rural frontier town of Homer, Ohio, to illiterate parents.
She left school aged 11 and was married by 15, but founded a newspaper in New York City and went on to become a leading figure in the American suffragist movement. She rallied against the hypocrisy of society tolerating married men who had mistresses and after her first husband cheated on her.
She first ran for office aged 32 in 1872 and then again in 1884 and 1892.
A director is yet to be attached to the movie and the production schedule is being kept tightly under wraps.
The role is fitting Larson, who is vocal on women’s issues and has openly supported victims of sexual violence, portraying one in her Best Actress Oscar-winning performance for ‘Room’. Larson recently said there needs to be more female directors in Hollywood. — BANG Showbiz