
Deadline three times has mentioned Jennifer Connelly as being the frontrunner to re-team with A Beautiful Mind‘s Russell Crowe and play his wife in Noah, the Darren Aronofsky-directed Biblical epic that also will star Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Douglas Booth. Sure enough, now reports are surfacing that she’ll play the role. I’m not sure how much competition she had since the first time Deadline reported it on June 4. She was the only name we heard being taken seriously.


Would have preferred Julianne Moore.
Is she a name? Why do people /companies continue to cast her?
Is she a name? Just an Academy Award winner for best actress.
Wow that’s a pretty vanilla ark.
Who were you expecting, Margaret Cho?
Jennifer Connelly is “half Jewish” and Logan Lerman is just Jewish, so why can’t they play Biblical characters?
Not to mention re-teaming with Director Arnofsky from their Requiem days…
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He’s handsome and brilliant. She loves him. He goes crazy and builds an Ark. She cries. He beats two unicorns to death with a phone. She gets an Academy Award. It’s BEAUTIFUL MIND all over again.
Oh, I think she’ll be great, she’s a skillful actress….Interesting because she is being reteamed with Aronofsky and Crowe….Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream completely relauched her career and gave her some serious actress street cred; building on that she earned an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind with Crowe, which was the high point of her career so far. I’m quite intrigued by the entire mix of actors, actually.
Literally no one better to play Noah’s wife than Jennifer Connelly. She’s the kind of wife that every man should aspire to have. Great casting!!
…. and clearly Paul Bettany should do the voice of God.
That way… Crowe and Connelly can wonder if Noah is really just talking to himself again.
The Prodigal son returns!!
I think Jennifer is a perfect choice for the role. Love her!