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Thanks to honey827 for posting this on the mb :) From the NY Daily News - Daily Dish: Katie moves away from girl next door Friday, May 13th, 2005 (click on pic to enlarge)
Katie Holmes wants to be bad - and boyfriend Tom Cruise wants to help her. Jude Law's fiancée, Sienna Miller, was due to play the It girl, who died of a barbiturate overdose in 1971. While some claim the producers decided to go for a bigger star, Miller's reps say she bowed out after landing the role of Celia in a prestigious West End production of "As You Like It." Attorney Aaron Richard Golub, who is producing "Factory Girl" with Holly Wiersma and Bob Yari, tells us, "It was a scheduling conflict. We love Sienna." But they really love Holmes. Director George Hickenlooper, who had lunch with her in L.A. yesterday, sees the 26-year-old clean-scrubbed actress as perfect to star as the tragic heiress, who died at 28 after several stays in mental hospitals. "Katie is not too different from Edie, who arrived in New York as young, innocent, looking for excitement," says the "Man From Elysian Fields" director. Holmes' new guy, Cruise, who picked her up after a recent "Factory Girl" meeting, is said to agree that the role will help take her beyond the girl next door. "Tom loves getting into his roles, and he's already helping Katie research Edie," an insider tells us. "I've heard they're even going to the cemetery where Edie is buried." As for the rest of the cast, "L.A. Confidential" star Guy Pearce will play Warhol. Gwen Stefani is due to play fellow Factory girl Richie Berlin. Stefani's husband, Gavin Rossdale, will play Warhol star Gerard Malanga. P.S. Hickenlooper says he's steering clear of the controversy over whether Sedgwick had an affair with Bob Dylan. "Edie definitely knew Dylan, Jim Morrison, Mick Jagger and others," says the filmmaker. "We've decided to create a character who is kind of hybrid of all of them." Shooting starts this summer in New York.
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