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Tim Roth To Star As Henry Kissinger In CAA-Backed ‘Kissinger Takes Paris’; Robin Wright Among Cast


Tim Roth will play Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. secretary of state, in 'Kissinger Takes Paris.' Robin Wright will also star in the feature.

Tim Roth( The Hateful Eight) has signed up to play Henry Kissinger in a “mostly true” story of the former U.S. secretary of state’s role in the Vietnam peace talks, with sales launching at Cannes. Roth will be joined by a cast that includes Robin Wright( House of Cards), Mary-Louise Parker ( Weeds), Lucy Hale ( Truth or Dare), David Cross ( Arrested Development), Jimmy O. Yang ( Crazy Rich Asians), Rob Corddry ( Childrens Hospital), and Dylan Penn ( Who Invited Charlie? Here’s the logline: “The film tells the (mostly) true story of Henry Kissinger – a middle-aged, politically washed-up Harvard professor who, in 1968, travels to Paris at the height of its student protests and the dawn of the sexual revolution.

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