Sentences with phrase «wicked stepmother in»

Cate Blanchett has been signed on to play Cinderella's wicked stepmother in the live action Disney movie for over a year.

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So there's something to the «wicked stepmother» mythology — as in, your stepmother has wicked taste!

This version of Cinderella features Drew Barrymore in the title role and Angelica Huston as the wicked stepmother.

That's what a wicked stepmother (Helena Bonham Carter) hisses at 16 - year - old Nigel (Freddie Highmore) in Toast, an adaptation of a»60s - set memoir by British food writer Nigel Slater.

Besides the upcoming Malick films and the final chapter of «The Hobbit» later this year, she will star in a live - action version of «Cinderella» directed by Kenneth Branagh as the wicked stepmother Lady Tremaine next year; she gets tangled up in a lesbian affair with Rooney Mara («The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo») in Carol, a thriller directed by «I'm Not There»» s Todd Haynes; and she will do a rare TV role as a real - life New Yorker cartoonist who battled cancer in HBO's «Cancer Vixen,» directed by Julie Delpy.

We're also told that The Hobbit star Cate Blanchett will remain in the movie as the wicked stepmother, though the production is still looking to find the right fit for its main role.

The climax takes place on the grounds of a rundown play - land inspired by the stories of the Brothers Grimm (where the truth of her origin is revealed), and her primary hunter is a CIA agent named Marissa (Cate Blanchett), who serves as both the wicked stepmother (There's little doubt that had things gone her way, Hanna would be working alongside her in covert operations) and the big, bad wolf (She appears, at one key moment, out of the maw of her archetypical inspiration).

It's a message that Ella will need when her father remarries and she's left living in an attic under the watchful eye of her wicked stepmother (a wonderfully scornful Cate Blanchett) and her obnoxious stepsisters (Sophie McShera and Holliday Grainger).

Who: Cinderella is a young woman whose father suddenly dies, leaving her in the custody of her wicked stepmother and stepsisters.

For stepmothers, two quite opposite ones: the wicked stepmother of Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, and Cinderella fame, and the perfect stepmother like Julie Andrews in the «Sound of Music.»

We live in a culture where little kids hear fairy tales about «wicked stepmothers» from a very young age.

These women do not refer to their partner's children as «his children» because they in any way resemble the «wicked stepmothers» of fairy tales fame.

But experts said that while the findings did not establish the image of the wicked stepmother as true, they supported the conclusion that, for complex reasons, stepmothers do invest less in children than biological mothers do, with fathers, to a large extent, leaving to women the responsibility for the family's welfare.»