Game of Thrones’ Carice van Houten Joins Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis in Jesse Owens Biopic

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Carice van Houten

Carice van Houten

Game of Thrones actress Carice van Houten has joined Stephan James , Jason Sudeikis , Jeremy Irons , and William Hurt in the forthcoming biopic on track and field star Jesse Owens , titled Race .

She will play infamous German director Leni Riefenstahl , who helmed 1935’s Triumph of the Will , a Nazi propaganda documentary.

Starring Stephan James as Owens, the sports-drama film is currently shooting in Berlin, where the master athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics and single-handedly crushed Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy .”

Directed by Stephen Hopkins and written by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse , Race is set to premiere on April 8, 2016 in the U.S.

[via hollywoodreporter.com ]

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