WINNIE MANDELA ANGRY ABOUT PLANNED BIOPIC
NELSON MANDELA’s ex-wife WINNIE is furious about plans for a new biopic o= f her life starring JENNIFER HUDSON - because she was "never consulted" a= bout the project.
The Oscar winner was unveiled as the lead in South African filmmaker Da= rrell J. Roodt’s new movie Winnie, documenting her life and marriage to t= he former South African president.
But Winnie Mandela is "extremely concerned" about the proposed movie be= cause she has not been approached to provide input.
In a letter sent from her attorney Bowman Gilfillan to the film produce= rs, the legal adviser expresses his client’s anger and disappointment at = being left out of her own story.
He writes, "It is difficult to understand how a production bearing the = name of an individual who has not been consulted at all could ever be app= ropriate or tell the full story of that individual’s life as media report= s suggest this production is intended to.
"This is certainly the case here, where our client has not responded to= allegations and comment which have been made about her, precisely becaus= e she has sought to protect her sphere of personal privacy as best she ca= n in extremely difficult and turbulent times." Roodt’s film has already stirred controversy in South Africa - members = of a local actors’ union hit out at Hudson’s casting last month (Dec09), = insisting an actor from Mandela’s native country should have been cast as= the title character in a movie so important to South Africa’s history. (=
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