Christina Hendricks 'Dark Places' Stripper Role? Actress Gets Promoted From Stripper To Mother

The world went crazy when news that Christina Hendricks was set to play a stripper in the film adaptation of Gillian Flynn's best-selling thriller "Dark Places" broke. The "Mad Men" actress will join Charlize Theron, Chloe Moretz, Nicholas Hoult and Corey Stoll in the Gilles Paquet-Brenner film. Hendricks was supposed to play Krissi Cates, a stripper who years ago accused a man (Stoll) of being a child molester. Krissi is down on her luck and must address secrets from her past that have implications for the accused man's older sister (Theron).

However, the roles changed and now Christina will no longer be a stripper for the delight of many men (and women). But don't start crying yet, she is still cast in the movie, this time as the lead, Patty Day, the murdered mother of Charlize Theron's Libby Day character. Samantha Morton dropped out leaving the role open, and producers offered the part to Emmy-nominated Hendricks. So how exactly can Christina and Charlize, both 38, be mother and daughter in a movie? By a series of flashbacks.

Like the book, the film follows Libby, a woman who survived the massacre of her family when she was only 7 years old. Twenty-five years later, a group obsessed with solving notorious crimes confronts her with questions about the horrific event, and digging into it, she learns that her brother Ben, whom she originally testified was at fault, sending him to jail, might not be the killer. Told in a series of flashbacks from the points of view of Libby's mother, Patty, and her brother, Ben, Libby is forced to revisit that fateful day and begins to question what exactly she saw - or didn't see - the night of the tragedy.

Shooting began in Louisiana last week, and the movie is expected to hit theaters next year.

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