Julia Roberts and Alec Baldwin to Star in The Normal Heart

Julia Roberts and Alec Baldwin have signed on for Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play The Normal Heart.

The film chronicles the rise of HIV/AIDS among New York’s gay community in the 1980s.

Roberts will play Emma Brookner, a wheel-chair bound doctor and one of the city’s few physicians who acknowledges the severity of the disease.

Baldwin will play the brother to Mark Ruffalo’s Ned Weeks. Additionally, White Collar’s Matt Bomer and Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons also have roles in the film.

Bomer will play Felix Turner, Weeks’ boyfriend and gay fashion journalist who unfortunately contracts the deadly disease. Parsons will reprise his role from the Broadway version as a Southern activist for gays and member of a gay men’s health crisis group.

Posted: January 23rd, 2012 under Movies.
Tags: Alec Baldwin, Jim Parsons, Julia Roberts, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Ryan Murphy, The Normal Heart