Judi Dench has joined Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh in the forthcoming Marilyn Monroe drama “My Week With Marilyn.”
Michelle Williams will play blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe in the film set to be directed by Brit TV veteran Simon Curtis. Based on the diary of Sir Laurence Olivier’s employee Colin Clark, who in 1957 looked after Monroe when she arrived in London to film “The Prince And The Showgirl” with Olivier, the film will chronicle the clash between the veteran thespian and the fragile actress during the production of the movie.
Dench is set to play actress Sybil Thorndike, who played the Dowager Queen in “The Prince And The Showgirl,” about a London variety show dancer who meets a stuffy European prince. Casting is still out for a young actor to play Colin Clark.
Dench will shoot her scenes starting on September 20th, two weeks ahead of production schedule, so she can maintain her commitments to John Madden’s “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.”