Movie News - Movies and Musicals with Aedín Gormley
Sep 5, 2026 · 12 min · 9 segments
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Gareth Daly
Aedín GormleyHost
We're starting with a Fred Astaire biopic that Tom Holland is going to be starring in.
But there's rumours now about co-starring it, the co-lead in the movie to play Adele Astaire.
So two names that have popped up, Monica Barbaro and Margaret Qualley, are both in the running, it seems.
And what's interesting about both of them, they're both classically trained ballet dancers.
Holland recently confirmed that he will not use a double and intends to do all the dancing in the film himself.
Yeah, so I mean, it looks like they're going to get the casting right for it.
What is interesting about it, there's a sort of minor controversy about it because the Astaire estate claims that Fred explicitly stated in his will that he did not want his life story to be depicted on screen.
So that's probably a reason for the delay over the years wanting to get it made.
We're starting with a Fred Astaire biopic that Tom Holland is going to be starring in.
But there's rumours now about co-starring it, the co-lead in the movie to play Adele Astaire.
So two names that have popped up, Monica Barbaro and Margaret Qualley, are both in the running, it seems.
And what's interesting about both of them, they're both classically trained ballet dancers.
Holland recently confirmed that he will not use a double and intends to do all the dancing in the film himself.
Yeah, so I mean, it looks like they're going to get the casting right for it.
What is interesting about it, there's a sort of minor controversy about it because the Astaire estate claims that Fred explicitly stated in his will that he did not want his life story to be depicted on screen.
So that's probably a reason for the delay over the years wanting to get it made.
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