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"Madonna has recruited British actor James D&amp;#039;Arcy to star in her next directorial venture W.E., says Variety. D&amp;#039;Arcy, whose credits include Revelation, Master And Commander and Flashbacks Of A Fool, will play King Edward VIII in the drama. Andrea Riseborough, Abbie Cornish and Oscar Isaac are also confirmed for the cast. The movie features two love stories: in the present Cornish&amp;#039;s Wally romances a Russian security guard who works at Sotheby&amp;#039;s, while in the past the king abdicates the throne to marry American socialite Wallis Simpson. Madonna recently told Interview of the project: &amp;quot;The Duke and Duchess of Windsor are in the movie, but it&amp;#039;s not going to be about them. It&amp;#039;s really about this other woman&amp;#039;s journey, and the Duchess is kind of her spiritual guide. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s set mostly in pre-World War II England-like, 1936 to 1937-and then in New York in 1998. It goes back and forth in time. I use the Sotheby&amp;#039;s auction in 1998 of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor&amp;#039;s estate as a device to flash backward from.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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