Eva Green has been cast to play Virginia Woolf in a new biopic, which will chronicle the romance between Woolf and fellow author Vita Sackville-West.
Gemma Arterton will co-star in Vita & Virginia as Sackville-West, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film will be adapted by Eileen Atkins from her 1992 play of the same name.
Woolf met Sackville-West in 1922, when both women were married. They began a sexual relationship that lasted almost a decade, and remained friends afterwards until Woolf's suicide in 1941. Woolf has been portrayed on screen many times before, most notably in Nicole Kidman's Oscar-winning performance in The Hours.
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