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Kim Basinger to play autistic child's aunt
Source: Yahoo Daily News
Web posted at 12-Mar-99 05:37 Central European Time
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NEW YORK (Variety) - Kim Basinger is close to a deal to star for director Chuck Russell in the Paramount thriller "Bless the Child", in which she will play a relative of an autistic child.
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The best supporting actress winner for "L.A. Confidential", Basinger will shoot the millennium-themed thriller starting next month in Toronto. Basinger committed to the film after a meeting with Russell on the 26th of February.
Script changed to include autistic child
In a script originated by Cliff and Ellen Green, and rewritten by Don Roos and Russell, Basinger plays a psychiatric nurse charged with saving a child from the clutches of a Satanist.
As currently written, Basinger would play a grandmother and the child would be her autistic 6-year-old granddaughter, who was abandoned by her drug addicted mother.
Basinger, herself the mother of an infant, seems too young to play a granny, and there's talk her character might become the child's aunt.
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