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    The Help's Jessica Chastain to Play Princess Diana?

    One of Hollywood's hottest up-and-coming redheads just got the royal role of a lifetime.

    Jessica Chastain has been cast as the late Diana, Princess of Wales in the film Caught in Flight, IndieWire reports.

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    The Help actress, 30, will play Prince William and Harry's mom, who died at age 36 in 1997 in a car crash, in a film about her secret, alleged affair with heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan, said to be the love of her life.

    Directed by German director Oliver Hirschbiegel, Caught in Flight is "a love story between a princess locked in a tower and an ordinary man," according to a press release, and is set to begin filming in Pakistan, Angola, the South of France and Paris (the site of Diana's fatal car crash) in March 2012.

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    Diana is said to have met Dr. Khan in 1995, and they embarked on a two-year affair up until her death. Dr. Khan, who Diana called "Mr. Wonderful," broke his silence about the romance in 2008 to British paper The Telegraph.

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    At one point, Keira Knightley was considered for the role given to Chastain, a breakout star this year thanks to The Help plus The Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn.

    Tell Us: Is Chastain the right choice to play Diana?

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    368 comments

    • DIANNE  •  6 months ago
      She does not look like Princess Diana and doubt that this movie will be a hit!
    • Rebecca  •  6 months ago
      Okay.....no resemblance whatsoever. Who cast this movie?
    • PATRICIA  •  6 months ago
      I say, leave her alone for the sake of her treasured boys. She is gone and isn't coming back as much as we would like that. I also agree that the lady chosen to play Diana doesn't look a bit like her.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  6 months ago
      This movie will be pure fiction and not worth the time nor money to make it. Leave the lady alone once and for all.
      • Cato 6 months ago
        Why leave her alone? I very much doubt that she knows that someone is bothering her. Her body is locked away in a tomb slowly returning its elements to nature. She is not aware of any movie being made about her.
      • Karen S 6 months ago
        In her short life she did more for humanity than Charles or his pet dog Camilla will do in their combined lifetimes. She should be honored for that, and I think Charles is shaking in his slippers at what will come out about him. It promisses to be interesting if true to life.
      • Anon 6 months ago
        She did more for humanity??? Really??? And you know this how??? She only did it for the reputation and publicity. Her job, when she got married, was to behave in public, show her best self, and do good for all the organizations that her in-laws had started in the first place. She was supposed to be the figure that non-royalty could relate to and bring a better reputation for the royals. BTW - that job now belongs to Katie!! You really need to do some research...
    • G R  •  6 months ago
      If you're married it's an affair; she wasn't at the time so it was a romance. Too bad the man she loved went to the press with thier private story. I guess he isn't Mr. Wonderful after all.
      When will they let her rest in peace?
      • Karen S 6 months ago
        probably when they let JFK and Jackie O or Marilyn Monroe...etc.
    • Lexi  •  6 months ago
      They don't even have the same face shape!!! Its a horrible match.
    • Anna W  •  6 months ago
      no resemblance at all!
    • Diane  •  6 months ago
      Definately No Resemblence to (*Princess Diana*) at all!! This is only a mockery of a woman that did so much for many and was loved then and now so dearly, for Who she was at heart:) Please leave her memory alone:( **if your desperate to make a movie about something,,,,**Why not try and make one about the Political Corruption World Over**- but then again, we wouldnt want to tarnish the reps of Polished Animals and Crooks now would we,,,Gesssh get a life or a job better yet!!
      • Karen S 6 months ago
        makeup and hair dye will make a big improvement, use your imagination
    • waters  •  6 months ago
      she doesn't look lile Diana anymore than I do
    • peanut  •  6 months ago
      I hope not. Their face shapes are not even similar.
    • kapt_kan  •  6 months ago
      Of course Hollywood will forget to mention Princess Diana's work to outlaw the horror of land mines. She should be remembered for that. I stronly suspect that she was deliberately murdered precisely because of the pressure she was bringing against the world's largest manufacturer and seller of land mines, the US government.
      Hollywood isn't likely to get that right, either.
      • christ_never... 6 months ago
        Bull excrement. She died because she was in a car driven by a drunk and chased by howling photographers. Paranoia does not become you.
    • Fritz  •  6 months ago
      Somebody must be kidding here! Not only is there no resemblance and never can be, but can these people not stop to continuously heap pain on her two sons?
      • Papa Smurf 6 months ago
        Actually, to make this particular movie, they had and received approval from the family. Have you not heard the rumblings: The Lords are low on cash. Right now, they are willing to sell anything if it makes a buck and brings more attention to the royal family. But its not their fault. The fans who adore them want it. And why not give what everyone really wants. As for not having a resemblance to a historical figure.. uhhh..hello.. this is hollywood.. every movie made about a historical figure lacks the truth in resemblance. Seriously. You think that every historical figure was a 44 double d with a rocking #$%$ wearing 21st century clothing? Give me a break. Its funny how we all know Hollywood lies and glorifies the truth but never in my years did I think everyone would believe that the actors looked anything like the characters they tried to play.
      • Craig Stewpid 6 months ago
        Fritz, are you refering to the two useless parasites that she created with her brain-dead fop of a husband? The same two pompous little twits who continue to deliberately place themselves in the spotlight on a regular basis? Cry me a river of tears for those two entitled, grotesquely weathy tapeworms.........
      • musiclibby14 6 months ago
        im sorry, that is just plain rude, W. how would you like to have that said about you?!?!
    • Violet  •  6 months ago
      but Diana has a blue eyes, Jessica not.
    • kevin  •  6 months ago
      just wait until they wanna do a movie about micheal jackson..who r they gonna get to play him...samuel jackson lol
    • SSK  •  6 months ago
      Is it so hard to figure that this is ONLY about money? That is all Hollywood people care about - regardless of everything else.
    • Fern  •  6 months ago
      Can't say I'd watch the movie though....
    • Rjc  •  6 months ago
      No one can resemble Princess Diana. Diana was one of kind.... RIP
    • GARY  •  6 months ago
      Hmmm. I have never heard of this actress. I hope she does a good job!! I look forward to seeing the movie. I hope its done in good taste!
    • carolle  •  6 months ago
      no women like her leave diana alone.....
    • sideshow4114  •  6 months ago
      I don't see it. But maybe she'll do a good job. Who knows.

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