More casting news on the movie from Kevin MacDonald, who brought us the highly taught documentary Touching the Void, entitled The Last King of Scotland. Gillian Andersonis set to join the cast (yes, that really is her!), Coming Soon carry the news:
Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) has joined the cast of The Last King of Scotland. She will play Sarah Zach, an Israeli doctor…who has a brief affair with Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy).
It’s also worth, if I didn’t before, having a quick look at the movie’s blurb. Much like Tears of the Sun it’s a movie that can tell a lot more people of some of the terrible acts that have been (and are being) carried out in some areas of Africa, and yet still bring a good movie experience to the big screen.
a Scottish doctor (McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world’s most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan’s brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin’s savagery – and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and get out of Uganda alive.
