Elizabeth Olsen has joined Tom Hiddleston for the Hank Williams biopic, I Saw the Light. Olsen plays wife Audrey Mae.
Elizabeth Olsen has continued to impress in her project choices ever since she stunned critics and audiences with 2011’s Martha, Marcy May Marlene. In the short intervening three years, we’ve seen her in everything from terrific period dramas like In Secret to that style’s big budget antithesis (Godzilla, Avengers: Age of Ultron). Now, it appears that she’ll see the light as well with her casting in writer and director Marc Abraham’s I Saw the Light, a Hank Williams biopic.
Based on 1994’s Hank Williams: The Biography by Colin Escott, George Merritt, and William MacEwan, the film is directed by Abraham, a longtime veteran producer (Children of Men, In Time) and already has Tom Hiddleston, also of The Avengers franchise, playing Williams.
Olsen has been cast as Williams’ wife, Audrey Mae, who tried to be there for the legendary Western singer and songwriter.
Williams’ brief but extraordinary life seems like a rich one for the big screen, because as a success story, Williams rocketed to the top of the Country and Western charts with 35 singles hitting the top 10 before his death at 29-years-old. Despite extraordinary success, Williams struggled with an addiction to alcohol and prescription pills, which proceeded his death of heart failure. Nonetheless, he left a legacy that includes “Ramblin’ Man,” “Lost Highway,” and “Lovesick Blues.”
Production on I Saw the Light is set to begin in October in Louisiana.
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