Multiple outlets report today that Rachel McAdams, Canada’s finest acting export since Mike Myers and Jim Carrey both went insane, has signed on to play the romantic lead in Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes.” This casting completes Ritchie’s casting of the sexiest Sherlock Holmes franchise ever – the title character is to be played by Robert Downey, Jr. and his sidekick Watson will be played by Jude Law.
The Hollywood Reporter offers further insight into McAdams character, the “enigmatic” Irene Adler, who is based on a female character who appeared once in an 1891 Holmes novelization by Sir Author Conan Doyle.
If you simply cannot wait until “Sherlock Holmes” is shot to see more of McAdams then you can catch her soon in the movie adaptation of “The Time Traveler’s Wife” with Eric Bana (RIYL: “The Notebook”); 2009’s dramatic thriller “State of Play”; or this weekend in “The Lucky Ones,” playing a role that was clearly written for Renee Zellweger when she was 10 years younger.