Kathryn Morris UK

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.

It’s another tabloid story told in a very tabloid way.  Some how they’ve taken a part of a movie and made it about an actor’s personal life because he is with another very famous actress.  As sad/pathetic/silly it is you do have to sort of admire it the skill required to twist it around like that.

It does gives some credence to the earlier Star magazine story but let’s not take it too seriously.  How can you when they use the phrase “newcomer” to describe Kathryn?

I’ll let HollywoodLife.com tell it in their own style in this extract:

HollywoodLife.com has obtained a copy of the film’s script, and we can tell you that his character, Oakland A’s real-life General Manager Billy Beane, leaves a hot and sexy Hawaiian vacation with his wife, Tara (reportedly to be played by newcomer Kathryn Morris), to organize his team after losing one of their best players, Jason Giambi.

Does this mean Kathryn gets to shoot on location in Hawaii with Brad?

Item quoted in full after the break and can be found HERE on the HollywoodLife.com website.

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