Variety is reporting that Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal is in talks to appear alongside Kate Hudson in the new romance, Earthbound. The weepie is about a terminally ill woman who falls for her doctor. Although the report doesn’t explicitly state it, we’re assuming Bernal will be the doctor, while Hudson will play the sick woman.
While it’s a slightly odd creen coupling, and also not the sort of thing that Bernal would normally appear in (he seems to favour more arty projects, rather than just going for whatever will make him a bigger star), it may well be that the project has a more indie sensibility than it would initially appear, as it’s being directed by Nicole Kassell, the woman behind the 2004 Kevin Bacon pedophile drama, The Woodsman. That news alone would suggest Hudson is going to tragically die in Earthbound, rather than live happily ever after with her hunky doctor/lover. If so, hopefully it will remind us Kate can actually act, and not just prop up Matthew McConaoughey in forgettable rom coms.
We’ll never see her gyrating in the Oscar bait musical, Nine, while Bernal is appearing in Letters To Juliet, with Amanda Seyfried.