Maggie Gyllenhaal To Smile For Julia Roberts


Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal will grin for Revolution Studios and Julia Roberts' Shoelace Prods. in "Mona Lisa Smile," reports The Hollywood Reporter.

Julia Stiles and Kirsten Dunst also have recently joined the project, Mike Newell is directing.

Gyllenhaal will play Giselle Levy, a native New Yorker and sultry beauty who has skipped adolescence and headed straight for "the 21 club." Set in 1953, "Smile" centers on a free-spirited graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (Roberts) who accepts a teaching post in the vastly different world of all-women's college Wellesley.

"Mona Lisa Smile" is set to be released next July.

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