When it comes to baseball women don’t get much of a look in. When it comes to Moneyball it is all about Brad.
Nicole Sperling of the LA Times has done her homework and recognised that women were originally planned to be far more involved in the movie.
The character of Billy Beane’s daughter (played by Kerris Dorsey) figures extensively in the trailers, so much so that you might believe she has a large role. She doesn’t. Robin Wright, as Beane’s first wife, certainly filmed quite a few scenes and even got to appear on the official website after most cast descriptions only included Brad, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jonah Hill. Only one scene of hers has made it to the big screen.
And we all know what happened to Kathryn’s role. As Nicole puts it:
In fact, director Bennett Miller axed an entire role from the movie — that of Kathryn Morris (“Cold Case”) as Beane’s second ex-wife, Tara Beane.
You can read Nicole’s piece in full here.
Hopefully the good people at Sony Pictures will see fit to include an Extra on the DVD release of Moneyball with same title as this post to showcase the talents of the ladies of Moneyball.
I think Kathryn should do a season on America’s Dancing With the Stars. At least it would get the public eye on her again. And although I’ve never watched the show, I would if she were on!
@michelle- I don’t think she’s the type to be on that show. I do agree with you about that Tv would get her back in the public eye
Sad we just don’t get a lot of seeing Kathryn these days
What is wrong with the director, it’s pathetic. He must really not really just how much talent Kathryn has, sorry but Bennett Miller made a terrible mistake.
I’m sure the movie would have been better if she was in it.
Amazing, that you cut a whole section of the movie out. Now that I know that Kathryn Morris is not in the movie, I’m not interested in watching it at the theater, buying the dvd, or even renting it. I have been anticipating its release, since I can’t see one of my favorites on Cold Case, but all I can say is thanks, for screwing this up.
Hi Katherine,
Welcome to KM UK.
Believe me we fellow Kathryn fans here at KM UK are equally unhappy about the fact that Kathryn was cut from Moneyball. If we had our way it would be wall-to-wall Kathryn, with maybe a bit of Brad
As you can see from our latest post (click HERE) at least one of Kathryn’s scenes will be on the DVD release as an Extra.