After many years of almosts and nearlys, February saw Julianne Moore finally win an Academy Award for her performance in Still Alice. Now, the actress is setting about picking her post-Oscar projects, with Variety reporting that the actress may have found one in the lead for the adaptation of Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Lee Israel’s 2008 memoir of the same name. In addition, Enough Said and Friends With Money director Nicole Holofcener is set to helm the film.
Published by Simon & Schuster, the original books synopsis is:
Before turning to the criminal life, running a one-woman forgery scam out of an Upper West Side studio shared with her tortoiseshell cat, and dodging the FBI, Lee Israel enjoyed a celebrated reputation as an author. When her writing career suddenly took a turn for the worse, she conceived of the astonishing literary scheme that fooled even many of the experts. Forging hundreds of letters from such collectible luminaries as Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, and Lillian Hellman — and recreating their autographs with a flourish — Israel sold her “memorabilia” to dealers across the country, producing a collection of pitch-perfect imitations virtually indistinguishable from the voices of their real-life counterparts.
No official confirmation on Moore’s casting has come through as of yet, but you can catch her later this year as she reprises her role as President Coin in the final Hunger Games film, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, which opens in November.
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Originally published April 10, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
