Kate Beckinsale Announces 1st Role Since Mysterious Hospital Stay

Kate Beckinsale’s latest well being troubles aren’t conserving her off the large display screen.

Beckinsale, 50, will star alongside Scott Eastwood within the kidnapping drama Stolen Woman, which is now in pre-production. The movie will inform the true story of Maureen Dabbagh, a lady who spent years trying to find her daughter after she was kidnapped by the kid’s father.

Most of Stolen Woman can be shot in Italy and is predicted to start principal images quickly, with a reported funds round $25 million. James Kent will direct the film, with Rebecca Pollock and Kas Graham writing the screenplay.

The information of Beckinsale’s casting comes simply weeks after she shared (then deleted) a sequence of posts on Instagram from a hospital mattress as she acquired remedy for an undisclosed sickness. Whereas Beckinsale hasn’t shared particulars, she has denied being handled for a ruptured cyst or endometriosis. Beckinsale was beforehand handled for a ruptured ovarian cyst in January 2019.

Beckinsale first posted a photograph of herself in a hospital mattress on March 10, celebrating U.Okay. Mom’s Day and sharing sort phrases about her personal mom. Two days later, she shared a picture of her Pomeranian, Myf, visiting her within the hospital, including that her cat Willow visited the day earlier than.

It’s not clear whether or not Beckinsale left the hospital after that after which returned, or if she had one prolonged keep, however she later celebrated Easter from a hospital mattress on March 31 and shared extra hospital pictures a couple of days later.

Beckinsale additionally hinted at abdomen ache in an Instagram put up on Sunday, April 21. Earlier this month, she shared a put up of herself sporting a shirt that stated “TUMMY TROUBLES SURVIVOR.”

Her well being troubles come at a troublesome time for the actress, who has additionally handled the grief of shedding her stepfather, Ray Battersby.

Over the weekend, Beckinsale paid tribute to her stepfather on what would have been his birthday.

“There can be no FaceTime right now,” she wrote through Instagram, subsequent to a photograph of Battersby. “In the midst of my evening, watching you open your presents. Nobody acquired presents with extra pleasure.”

She added in one other put up the subsequent day, “Do all of the issues. Wallow, cry, have fun, take a look at the wall in disbelief. Ship your mum flowers…Purchase gourmand cookies you’ll be able to’t eat as a result of your abdomen hurts. Possibly eat them anyway. Or don’t. Chuckle and cry while you obtain an e mail from a dentist you took him to as soon as, wishing your useless father a contented birthday. Do all of it. Or do none.”