For the past year, if not longer, Carey Mulligan has been rumored to be playing the female lead in Bradley Cooper's Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro, and now Deadline reports that her casting has been made official -- which is both exciting and a tiny bit discouraging. See, Mulligan will be playing the legendary composer's wife, Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein, who was born in Costa Rica and grew up in Chile. Her mother was Costa Rican, and her father was American, as well as Jewish. Mulligan certainly looks like Felicia, but she's English, so I'm not sure I'…

Back in May 2018, we reported that dueling Leonard Bernstein biopics were in the works. One was from Bradley Cooper with Steven Spielberg producing and the other was from Cary Fukunaga with Jake Gyllenhaal set to star as the famous composer. Now it looks like the Cooper project has clearly won out with Deadline reporting that Netflix will back the film and Cooper holding the rights to Bernstein's story. Deadline reports that the untitled Bernstein film is shaping up to be a major prestige player for Netflix with Cooper not only making the project his follow-up to the …