Posted: Wed., Jan. 7, 2004, 9:00pm PT

Green picked as 'Kingdom' princess

'Dreamer' thesp to play Bloom love interest

Director Ridley Scott has coronated Eva Green to play the female lead in "Kingdom of Heaven," the Crusades-era epic adventure that Scott is filming in Morocco for 20th Century Fox.

She will play Sibylla, a princess who falls in love with Balian, a peasant-turned-knight played by Orlando Bloom. William Monahan wrote the script; pic's being produced by Scott, with Branko Lustig, Lisa Ellzey and Terry Needham exec producing.

Green, a 23-year-old who lives in France, made a splashy debut in the Bernardo Bertolucci-directed film "The Dreamers," which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The premiere sparked a courting campaign by Hollywood agencies that just ended when Green signed with WMA, which will rep her with Europe-based Artists Independent Network.


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