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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:15 AM EST
Biel Makes Acting Look 'Easy'

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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry scene stealer Jessica Biel, who seems to always be cropping up in new movie projects, has been cast as the lead in the indie romantic comedy Easy Virtue.

Based on the Noel Coward play, the film tells the story of an American divorcee (Biel) who heads to the South of France. Once there she jumps into a whirlwind romance and wedding with an English guy (Ben Barnes, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader). Then the newly weds travel to the UK to face the music with his disapproving parents (Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas).

Alfred Hitchcock did the first film adaptation of Coward's 1924 play for a 1928 silent movie and this time around director Stephan Elliott will be at the helm.

Biel recently finished filming Powder Blue with Forest Whitaker and A Woman of No Importance with Annette Bening. She's currently preparing to star in the thriller Die a Little, based on Megan Abbott's acclaimed 2006 novel.

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