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TheEverything Everywhere All at Oncestar told PEOPLE at the 95th annual Oscar nominees luncheon on Monday that she was “excited” to play Kidman’s on-screen sister and produce the upcoming series.
“It’s part of my goal now is to expand into more of a creator, producer,” she shared. “And Nicole is the star of the show, and I’m going to play her sister Dorothy.”
Curtisteased the pair will have “a very combative relationship” on screen, adding, “So I think she and I will be having some good conflict — just like families [do].”
Jamie Lee Curtis at the Oscar nominees luncheon.JC Olivera/Getty Images
Kidman, 55, will star ascrime-solving medical examinerDr. Kay Scarpetta, and Curtis will portray her whimsical sibling on the Amazon series, Deadline reported last week.
Both actresses will serve as executive producers, with Kidman under Blossom Films and Curtis via her Comet Pictures company and her first-look deal with Blumhouse Television.
Cornwell appeared to confirm the casting news on Instagram with a photo of Kidman, 55, and Curtis, 64, in front of some of her most popular titles.
She wrote, in part: “Scarpetta friends, we’ve waited 33 years for this…”
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In the 26Scarpettabooks that Cornwell has written since 1990, the beautiful, tough-as-nails forensic examiner has a messy love life and a penchant for opera and Italian cooking. Before relocating to Massachusetts, she was the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia.
Comet Pictures and Blumhouse Television acquired the rights to theScarpettabook series two years ago. At the time, Curtis was named an executive producer, but it wasn’t certain whether she would also star in the series, according to Deadline.
source: people.com
