Rooney Mara in talks to star in Mary Magdalene biopic

The film, which is being described as a “biopic,” is being directed by Garth Davis, a relative newcomer whose previous credits include the Elisabeth Moss-starring Top Of The Lake and the recently completed Lion, also starring Mara. Now, the two of them are working together again, presumably because nothing says “fun project” like wading into the public relations hornet’s nest of casting the part of a historically Middle Eastern woman—from the Bible, no less—with an actress who looks like the “Before” pic in a photo advertising a tanning salon.

[via Deadline]