It looks like Uma Thurman will be starring as a very different kind of hero from her character in the Kill Bill, in the movie Girl Soldier. She’s signed on to play Sister Caroline, a nun who was teaching at a boarding school in Uganda in 1996 when a group of armed rebels conducted a raid and kidnapped loads of the female students.
Not willing to let this rest, Sister Caroline tracked the rebels back to their camp and demanded the girl’s release, before starting a crusade to rally parents, the government, the UN and the Pope to help rescue African children who are kidnapped by different rebel factions and forced to become soldiers or sex slaves.
It’s an incredible story and a film version is now on track, based on Kathy Cook’s book, Stolen Angels, and starring Uma. Thurman has said about the film, “This is a film that had to get made. It’s beyond me that in this day and age the exploitation of child soldiers goes virtually unnoticed and unchecked by Western media.”
While it does sound that it might be a bit of a downer, any film that highlights such a horrifying problem has to be a good thing.