{"id":534301,"date":"2026-03-11T23:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/534301\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:25:11","slug":"kate-winslet-is-female-lead-in-andy-serkis-lotr-hunt-for-gollum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/534301\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Winslet Is Female Lead In Andy Serkis’ ‘LOTR: Hunt For Gollum\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet<\/a> will join Andy Serkis<\/a>\u2019 Middle-earth epic\u00a0The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum<\/a>\u00a0in what has been described to Deadline by sources as the female lead, although the role has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n

\n\tSerkis and Peter Jackson spent most of last year coaxing Winslet to appear in the film, which means uprooting to New Zealand to shoot her scenes in the film from late May through to October.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s a country she\u2019s familiar with, having shot Jackson\u2019s 1994 movie\u00a0Heavenly Creatures\u00a0there. <\/p>\n

\n\tOscar winner Winslet will join a cast that includes the return of Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins, Ian McKellen as Gandalf and Serkis as Gollum \u2014 roles the three have been associated with since Jackson directed them in 2001\u2019s\u00a0The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring\u00a0and the subsequent series of\u00a0The Lord of the Rings\u00a0and\u00a0The Hobbit\u00a0features based on J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s celebrated collection.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe new film follows Aragorn\u2019s perilous quest to capture Gollum before the creature can reveal the Ring\u2019s location to Sauron. The story, much of it developed from Tolkien\u2019s footnotes, is set between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Andy<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tAndy Serkis as Gollum in \u2018The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEverett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen I interviewed the Titanic star last year<\/a> for her debut directorial feature\u00a0Goodbye June, she mentioned she would probably be out of the country for several months this year but refused to disclose the reason why.<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, sources have told Deadline that the chunk of time spent out of the UK will be spent filming\u00a0The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. The casting has been rumored on some film blogs today. We\u2019d been sitting on the news for a while but today can confirm the casting as legit.<\/p>\n

\n\tSerkis has recently been in Los Angeles and New Zealand in pre-production for the film, which starts shooting in May with Serkis in the director\u2019s chair. The Warner Bros<\/a> production has been scripted by Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh, Phoebe Gittins and Arty Papageorgiou. Jackson, Boyens, Walsh and Zane Weiner are producing.<\/p>\n

\n\tWinslet confirmed during our same Goodbye June interview that she there\u2019s a \u201cstrong likelihood\u201d of her starring in a second season of acclaimed HBO murder mystery\u00a0Mare of Easttown. Winslet said she has had what she called\u00a0\u00a0\u201cproper conversations\u201d with\u00a0Mare of Easttown\u00a0writer and creator Brad Ingelsby and director Craig Zobel about bringing back her dogged detective.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe said that they\u2019re hopeful of being in a position to shoot in Pennsylvania in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet will join Andy Serkis\u2019 Middle-earth epic\u00a0The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum\u00a0in what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[59306,64,63,86034,447,134,132057,265133,6141],"class_list":["post-534301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-andy-serkis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking-baz","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-kate-winslet","tag-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}