28 July 2003
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Luhrmann searches for young Alexander the Great
'Moulin Rouge' director Baz Luhrmann is on the lookout for a young actor to star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in his next film.
It'll be a huge-scale epic called 'Alexander the Great', and Leo plays the adult Alexander and Nicole Kidman plays his mother Olympia.
Baz told Radio 1 they've already started filming massive backdrops in Australia and Iran but there's a key part still to be found and that's a boy to play Alexander at the age of eight.
Baz told us it's a search on the scale of Harry Potter:
"Certainly in Germany, certainly in England, certainly in the United States, thousands and thousands of CVs will come in, and then the teams will sort through them, and then we'll get them down to about 50 candidates and I'll start running workshops, and I'll be doing little sessions with the kids together."
"Unless you get that performance right, Leonardo's journey is affected, so it's an exceptional performer we're looking for. They don't have to have any previous experience - that's why we're prepared to look at just about anyone."
If you think you know someone perfect for the role, please send a colour headshot of them, along with information about their age, height, weight, and horse-riding abilities to:
Universal Pictures Feature Casting Department
Untitled Alexander the Great Project
100 Universal City Plaza
Building 2160/8A
Universal City, California 91608
U.S.A.