On the unlikely (given its original source) but possible spike at the OII Australia newsroom goes this report via the Sydney Morning Herald that Madonna is attempting to persuade Cate Blanchett to take up the lead role in an upcoming musical bioflick about Wallis Simpson aka the Duchess of Windsor.
SMH report on Madonna movie project about Wallis Simpson.
Wallis Simpson has long been rumoured to have been born with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) in either its CAIS or PAIS form.
Screenshot, Annie Richard's Second Type Woman website page about AIS.
If Miss Blanchett accepts Madonna’s offer of the role, she will be the second Australian to portray an intersex woman – or in the case of the Duchess of Windsor, possible intersex woman – in a feature film.
Nicole Kidman will be the first Australian to portray an intersex woman in The Danish Girl, the feature film based on the life of Lili Elbe née Einar Mogens Wegener, based on the novel written by David Ebershoff.
