Robert Redford is amassing an all star cast for his latest directorial effort.
This morning we exclusively revealed that Evan Rachel Wood and up and coming British actor Toby Kebbell (“Control,” “RocknRolla”) joined James McAvoy, Justin Long and Robin Wright Penn in Redford’s “The Conspirator” a period drama based on true events following the assassination of President Lincoln.
Now Variety has thrown down and responded, confirmed our news about Wood’s participation and added that Tom Wilkinson, Kevin Kline and Alexis Bledel have all joined the film (they don’t seem to know that Kebbell is in, but it’s true).
We already laid out who plays who in our last report, so we won’t regurge here, but Variety says Kline plays Lincoln’s War Secretary Edwin Stanton, Bledel plays [McAvoy’s] wife, Catherine Morgan and Wilkinson portrays Reverdy Johnson, the former attorney general and a U.S. Senator who acts as a mentor to the young lawyer.
More photos from the set have surfaced here and here.
The story centers on Mary Surratt (Wright Penn), the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination of Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth (Kebbell) who relies on her reluctant lawyer and ex-war hero (McAvoy) to uncover the truth and save her life.
Some recent video from the shoot has found it’s way online that gives us another glimpse of McAvoy and a brief shot of Wood. Some of it is cornball local reports which are kind of amusing.