Jessica Biel has been cast as the lead in the romantic comedy "
Easy Virtue," based on the Noel Coward play, for London-based Ealing Studios.
Biel plays an American divorcee, Larita Huntington, who travels to the South of France and marries young wealthy Englishman John Whittaker, played by Ben Barnes, on the spur of the moment. The couple return to England to face his unapproving family, including his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Whittaker, played by Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas.