Kate Winslet-led film 'LEE' adds Marion Cotillard and Jude Law to cast

LEE is taking shape, according to an exclusive reported from Deadline on Thursday:

"In a development that makes for as hot a package as you’ll find at the Virtual American Film Market, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law, Andrea Riseborough and Josh O’Connor will join Kate Winslet in LEE, the Ellen Kuras-directed film about the wartime experiences of Lee Miller. Miller traded a glamorous career as a Vogue cover model and muse to artists like Man Ray for a dangerous career as a WWII photographer who chronicled the fighting on the allied front lines and exposed the atrocities that Hitler’s Nazi Germany perpetrated on Jews in concentration camps."

The report also included a quote from Winslet: 

"This is absolutely not a biopic. To make a story about Lee's whole life, that's a series worth for HBO. What we wanted to do was find the most interesting decade in her life, the one that defined who she was and what she became because of what she went through. It was the period from 1938-1948 that took her right through the war and her most defining time. That is the story we want people to know about Lee more than the many other parts of her life."

LEE draws from The Lives of Lee Miller, the biography penned by Miller's son with Sir Roland Penrose, Antony Penrose. In the film, Winslet will lead as Miller, who died in 1977. Winslet was first linked to the role in October 2015.

Antony will be portrayed by O'Connor (The Crown) and Roland by two-time Oscar nominee Law.

Winslet is fresh off the broad success of HBO limited series Mare of Easttown, in which she also starred as the titular character. The 46-year-old earned a Primetime Emmy for the role last month.