Actress Kate Winslet is stepping into the role now vacated by pregnant Nicole Kidman for the moive The Reader. The movie was originally offered to Winslet, who had to turn it down due to a scheduling conflict, but now things have changed.

“Kate was offered it first before Nicole but couldn’t do it but the dates clashed with commitments to Revolutionary Road,” says an insider. “So the dates changed, Nicole then got pregnant and now it has come back to Kate.”

Based on German author Bernhard Schlink’s bestselling 1995 novel � and Oprah’s Book Club selection � the film is about an affair between a teenage boy and an older woman in post-WWII Germany.

“Actually everyone is happy now � Nicole as she has a baby on the way, Kate because she has this great role she originally wanted to do, and the filmmakers are too,” says the source.

Congrats all around then.

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