Maria Bello to play Jocelyn in THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB (we think)
In an interview on About.com, Maria Bello described her role in the film version of THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB as:
Bello will also be shooting The Jane Austen Book Club in LA as well. “It’s based on a book called The Jane Austen Book Club.
Gee, a film called THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB based on a book called…The Jane Austen Book Club! Who knew?
It’s about these five women and a man that start a book club and it’s all Jane Austen, all the time. It’s how you see their lives going through [that]. Like the book at my house is Emma and my life starts to look like Emma’s life at the same time. I fall in love with this young guy. It’s pretty cool.”
It looks like she is playing Jocelyn from that description. We find this intensely curious as Jocelyn and her best friend Sylvia were fiftysomethings in the novel, and according to her IMDB page Ms. Bello is not even forty. The “young guy” is supposed to be in his forties–and too young for Jocelyn to think of as a match for herself at first (and a nifty reversal on Emma and Mr. Knightley’s age gap). Hollywood strikes again. We had our Barbie crush, the gorgeous Dame Helen, in mind for the role, but nobody listens to us, do they?
