From Entertainment Weekly:
In a week where unsettling May-December romances have made headlines (jilted groom Hugh Hefner is filming a special about getting dumped by ex-fiance Crystal Harris, a woman 60 years his junior, while we all tried to scrub off the news that Lost actor Doug Anthony Hutchinson married a 16-year-old), itโs fitting that Warren Beattyโs upcoming film surrounding the latter years of Howard Hughesโ life will feature his affair(s) with much young women.
Beatty, 74, will not only be stepping behind the camera for the first time in 13 years, but heโll also be portraying the infamous Hughes, who despite becoming a germophobic recluse, still found time to seduce โ and carry on affairs with โ much younger women. (The rest of the filmโs cast will reportedly include Alec Baldwin, Shia LaBeouf, Andrew Garfield, Jack Nicholson, Annette Bening, as well as Rooney Mara and Evan Rachel Wood.) While thereโs no indication of who the supporting cast will play yet, if Mara, 26 and Wood, 23, were to play one of Hughesโ conquests, itโs anyoneโs guess as to which one they would be. While thereโs plenty of Hughesโ documented lovers in his younger years (Ava Gardner, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, to name a few), it seems the younger ladies he carried on affairs with kept pretty mum about being with a guy who, for lack of a better word, went a little off the rails.
So consider us intrigued. But who could play these mystery ladies? Wood, who is no stranger to dating much older gents in real-life (on-again, off-again beau Marilyn Manson is nearly 20 years her senior), could very well portray the unnamed teen Hughes wooed. Or, perhaps, she or Rooney will play Hughesโ alleged secret wife Terry Moore, who was 24 years younger than him.
Ah, if only Hughes were around today, he would have made for some amazing reality television, no?
Do you think Rooney Mara and Evan Rachel Wood will be portraying Howard Hughesโ young mistresses in Warren Beattyโs new project? If so, which of Hughes many conquests do you think theyโll be playing? And are you intrigued about this mystery woman?
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