No doubt you’ve heard that Nicole Kidman is pregnant and has had to pull out of her latest film THE READER, a period drama that was set to reunite Kidman with the writing, directing and producing crew that helped the actress win her only Oscar to date for THE HOURS.

It’s not all doom and gloom though, Variety say that the great Kate Winslet will be her replacement and apparently she was actually the Weinsteins first choice for the part back in the Summer but her schedule on REVOULTIONARY ROAD stopped her from committing.

Which is bizarre, because The Weinsteins soon went after Kidman who agreed to star in the picture but wouldn’t herself be available until she finished up the long shoot on Baz Luhrmann’s AUSTRALIA, which is why it’s taken so long for this flick to begin filming and why Winslet is now actually available to star.

The British actress will play the seducing 36 year old women who gets involved in a love affair with a 15 year old boy… who later in life becomes her lawyer when she is prosecuted for war crimes committed during World War II. Ralph Fiennes has been cast from day one as the older lawyer.

Principal photography had already begun on the film in Berlin late last year but thankfully for the producers no time was wasted on Kidman who hadn’t shot any footage.