Mark Rylance to star in Steven Spielberg’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

Teaming up: Mark Rylance will star in Steven Spielberg’s new film
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Jennifer Ruby12 April 2016
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Mark Rylance is set to star in Steven Spielberg’s forthcoming film The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara.

The British actor, who won an Oscar for his role in Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies earlier this year, is teaming up with the iconic filmmaker again.

According to reports, Rylance will play Pope IX in the religious drama, which is expected to go into production at the end of next year.

The much talked-about film, tells the true story of a Jewish boy who was taken from his parents in 1858 and raised a Catholic.

Causing an international scandal at the time, Mortara went on to become a priest in the Augustinian order.

Award-winning screenwriter Tony Kushner, who won an Oscar for Lincoln, has written the script.

Spielberg is expected to start work on the new film after he has wrapped Ready Player One, an adaptation of Ernest Cline’s dystopian novel.

Rylance, who has been starring on Broadway, is about to start work on Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, which goes into production next month.

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