Weisz is also set to produce the Dr. James Barry biopic alongside Maven’s Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler.
A big screen biopic of 19th century surgeon Dr. James Barry is in the works at Maven Pictures where Deadline reveals that Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener, The Lobster) is set to play the leading role.
In the 1820s, Dr. James Barry burst into the English establishment from nowhere.
Barry famously pretended to be a man in order to follow her dream of practicing medicine.