Cynthia Nixon to play Emily Dickinson

Tuesday 11 September 2012

It has been reported that former Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon is set to play poet Emily Dickinson in a new film, A Quiet Passion, by director Terence Davies.

Cynthia Nixon - set to play Emily Dickinson

The Hollywood Reporter says the film will follow Dickinson's life from childhood through to her reclusive years. During her life the poet only saw seven of her 1,000 poems published.

Davies said "I wrote the screenplay with Cynthia in mind. It was the kind of dream casting you hope for. I never, for a moment, imagined my wishes would materialise. Cynthia has such a strong feeling for the work - and now she is our Emily Dickinson. I'm over the moon."Nixon added "When I read what Terence had written, I was consumed by the character he had so beautifully put on the page. Emily Dickinson's words and Terence's somehow dovetail to create a heady elixir. When I put the script down, I knew it was a story that I simply have to be part of."Hurricane Films are set to produce the film.