Emmy-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker (Fried Green Tomatoes, Weeds) has joined the cast of the HBO film The Days of Abandonment starring opposite Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman (Black Swan, Thor: Love and Thunder). The film is being directed by Maggie Betts (The Carrier, Novitiate), from a script she adapted based on the novel by Elena Ferrante.
In the film, Portman plays Tess, who, according to the logline, is a woman who abandoned her own dreams for a stable home life,” but when “abandoned by her husband, her world is thrown off its axis.” It promises to be “a visceral, no-holds-barred journey into the mind of a woman in crisis that confronts the norms of motherhood and female identity as Tess traverses the darkest reaches of her own psyche.”
Parker will play an unnamed character who in the casting announcement is called “Mysterious Woman — a mesmerizing but elusive woman Tess starts encountering everywhere she goes, causing Tess to question her sanity.”
These are two powerhouse actresses, and I’m sure they will make a great movie. The Days of Abandonment is currently in pre-production.
via: Variety