The Daily Telegraph reports
THEY could almost be sisters - two quick-witted screen stalwarts not afraid to speak their minds.
So it's only fitting that Jacki Weaver has nabbed the role of Shirley MacLaine's best friend in a new US indie comedy.
It was yesterday revealed the Aussie Oscar nominee has signed on to star in Wild Oats, about two old women who flee their small Ohio town for Las Vegas after receiving a social security cheque for $900,000 instead of $900.
Alan Arkin will play the male lead and The Whole Ten Yards' Howard Deutch will direct.
The coup proves the 64-year-old is continuing to capitalise on her "overnight success" status in Tinseltown, where she moved earlier this year with partner Sean Taylor.
Weaver's once-erratic career has skyrocketed since her monstrous turn as a crime matriarch in socio-psycho drama Animal Kingdom.
Hers was the Cinderella story of this year's Academy Awards, even though she lost the best supporting actress gong to The Fighter's Melissa Leo.
Since then she has filmed Jason Segel comedy The Five Year Engagement and is currently working on the Park Chan-wook thriller Stoker, alongside Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska.
She has also just landed a part in The Silver Linings Playbook playing Bradley Cooper's mother.
THEY could almost be sisters - two quick-witted screen stalwarts not afraid to speak their minds.
So it's only fitting that Jacki Weaver has nabbed the role of Shirley MacLaine's best friend in a new US indie comedy.
It was yesterday revealed the Aussie Oscar nominee has signed on to star in Wild Oats, about two old women who flee their small Ohio town for Las Vegas after receiving a social security cheque for $900,000 instead of $900.
Alan Arkin will play the male lead and The Whole Ten Yards' Howard Deutch will direct.
The coup proves the 64-year-old is continuing to capitalise on her "overnight success" status in Tinseltown, where she moved earlier this year with partner Sean Taylor.
Weaver's once-erratic career has skyrocketed since her monstrous turn as a crime matriarch in socio-psycho drama Animal Kingdom.
Hers was the Cinderella story of this year's Academy Awards, even though she lost the best supporting actress gong to The Fighter's Melissa Leo.
Since then she has filmed Jason Segel comedy The Five Year Engagement and is currently working on the Park Chan-wook thriller Stoker, alongside Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska.
She has also just landed a part in The Silver Linings Playbook playing Bradley Cooper's mother.
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