Javier Bardem replaced by a woman for Coppola's TETRO

Academy Award Winner is replaced by a Spanish actress in Coppola's next movie!

How cool is it that Francis Ford Coppola is making films again? I've recently secured myself a copy of his latest film the terribly distributed Youth Without Youth starring Tim Roth and Bruno Ganz which I have seen around half of at this point (I hate watching movies half way and then resuming them later but I had no choice for this one). So far it's a terrifically interesting movie and much more on the thriller side of things than I was expecting. Youth Without Youth was certainly not a one movie comeback for Coppola to go straight back into the wilderness again. He is already well in development on his next picture Tetro and it's that movie which concerns this post. The Hollywood Reporter says Academy Award Winner Javier Bardem has dropped out of the film and his character actually changed to a woman and replaced by a female actress. Veteran Spanish actress Carmen Maura will play his part of a literary critic and mentor to Tetro (Vincent Gallo), whose younger brother (Alden Ehrenreich) searches for him in Argentinia's capital city.

The massive 11 week rehearsal schedule before filming begins late Summer seems to have interfered with Bardem's role in Rob Marshall's movie Nines opposite Penelope Cruz. That will will begin shooting in September after it's original January start date was scrapped when re-writes were needed but made impossible because of the WGA strike.
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