Gay and lesbian icon Dusty Springfield will
be played by Australian actress Nicole Kidman in a forthcoming feature film on
the sometimes tragic life of the beehived queen of 60s blue-eyed soul.
Writer Michael Cunningham, who wrote
Kidman’s Oscar-winning role in The Hours,
said the actress will take the lead role in the film, which will be produced by
Fox 2000.
"[Dusty] was a great artist who no one knew what to do with,” Cunningham
told New York Magazine.
“She was coming into her full powers at the
same time the Beatles were. She is clearly going into history with The Beatles
and The Rolling Stones," the openly-gay author said.
In the 1960s, Springfield enjoyed hits such
as ‘I Only Want to be with You’, ‘Wishin’ and Hopin’, ‘The Look of Love’, ‘I
Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself’ and ‘Son of a Preacher Man’.
Cunningham confirmed that the movie will also
include the singer's troubled years of exile in Hollywood, her problems with
drink and drugs and her struggle to come to terms with her same-sex desires.
Springfield’s career was revived in 1987 when she sang on the Pet Shop Boys’
dancefloor hit, ‘What Have I Done to Deserve This?’.
The singer died in 1999 after a long battle with breast cancer.
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