The eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy who gave rise to the cult documentary Grey Gardens are proving to be hot commodities. An upcoming film with Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange joins the Playwrights Horizons musical in putting the mother-and-daughter Bouviers before the public eye once again.
"Barrymore will play Little Edie, and Lange will play her mother, Big Edie Bouvier Beale, the socialite cousin and aunt, respectively, of Kennedy Onassis. The Edies made headlines around the world when Jackie O herself materialized to rescue her family from public disgrace," according to an article in Variety. The trade paper reports that the film will be written and helmed by commercials director Michael Sucsy, and produced by Sucsy, Lucy Barzun and Rachael Horovitz.The film, which will cover 40 years, will also feature Kennedy Onassis, Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn as characters. "You couldn't capture the eccentric nature of those women better than the documentary did, but it left me with so many questions of what led them there," Sucsy stated. Albert and David Maysles created the original documentary.Videos