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November 23, 2001
The Daily Mail
Don't Loose Your Head, Rupert!
by Baz Bamigboye
| RUPERT EVERETT (right) is
sticking his neck out for his next role.
The actor is interested in portraying
Charles I, executed during the English Civil
War. He would be following in the footsteps of
Alec Guinness, who played the monarch in the
1970 film Cromwell.
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Mr. Everett will next week meet director Mike Barker
and producer Kevin Loader, who are making the film, Fairfax
And Cromwell, in the New Year.
Dougray Scott, who starred
in the recent wartime spy movie Enigma, will
portray Thomas Fairfax, commander of the Parliamentary
Army, and Tim Roth has agreed to play Oliver Cromwell.
The film looks at how the two men clashed after they had
won the war.
They disagreed on whether the King should lose his
head. Everett has read Jenny Mayhew's screenplay and is
keen, but he also has plans to film a pilot for a U.S.
TV show.
He will be seen soon opposite Judi Dench, Colin Firth
and Frances O'Connor in a new film version of The
Importance Of Being Earnest.
Both his leading ladies are in hit West End plays:
Judi in The Royal Family (she's also in the movie
Iris, which boasts four of the most sublime
performances you will ever see) and Frances O'Connor in Cat
On A Hot Tin Roof.
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