Australian actress Wendy Hughes dead at 61 (photo: Wendy Hughes in ‘Newsfront’) Australian film, television, and stage actress Wendy Hughes, best known internationally for the big-screen dramas My Brilliant Career and Careful, He Might Hear You, died of cancer early today, March 8, 2014, in Sydney. Hughes (born on July 29, 1952, in Melbourne) was 61. Wendy Hughes’ film career kicked off in the mid-’70s, with Tim Burstall’s psychological drama ‘Jock’ Petersen / Petersen (1974), in which she plays the wife of a college professor who becomes romantically involved with a married student (Jack Thompson). "I spent a lot of the time naked and doing sex scenes," Hughes would later recall about her work in ‘Jock’ Petersen, "because in the seventies you all had to do that." In 1979, Hughes landed a key supporting role in the international arthouse hit My Brilliant Career, Gillian Armstrong’s late 19th-century-set tale of an independent-minded young woman (a Katharine Hepburn...
- 3/9/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Brandon Routh ("Superman Returns") has signed on while his real-life wife Courtney Ford is in final negotiations to join the indie film "Missing William" reports The Wrap.
Ford will play an artist living in Rhode Island who is forced to care for her husband after he's tragically injured in a bar fight. Attempting to nurse him back to health, her childhood sweetheart and unrequited love (Routh) tries to coax her back into living her life again.
A complicated love triangle ensues, with the woman torn between the brain-damaged husband she loves and the hunky former flame who got away. The husband role has yet to be cast.
Kenn Macrae is directing and shooting kicks off next week in Rhode Island.
Ford will play an artist living in Rhode Island who is forced to care for her husband after he's tragically injured in a bar fight. Attempting to nurse him back to health, her childhood sweetheart and unrequited love (Routh) tries to coax her back into living her life again.
A complicated love triangle ensues, with the woman torn between the brain-damaged husband she loves and the hunky former flame who got away. The husband role has yet to be cast.
Kenn Macrae is directing and shooting kicks off next week in Rhode Island.
- 10/7/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Brandon Routh won't be in the new Zack Snyder-directed Superman, or so we're told. Which is too bad; after meeting resistance when he first got the role, I think a lot of people have grown used to the idea of Mr. Routh as Superman. Earning good will in Scott Pilgrim didn't hurt, through the rather dire-looking Dylan Dog might. Regardless, now he's booked a role in the indie Missing William. He may play opposite real-life wife Courtney Ford, who is in talks for the lead female role. Mr. Routh will be the childhood sweetheart of a woman who is trying to nurse her husband to health after he's injured in a fight. A love triangle naturally develops, "with the woman torn between the brain-damaged husband she loves and the hunky former flame who got away." Kenn Macrae will direct from a script by Daniel McKinnon. [TheWrap] After the break, Ray Liotta...
- 10/7/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
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