I'm not sure how to feel about this news: Alec Baldwin has signed on to star [1] alongside Cameron Diaz and the Fanning sisters in the film version of Jodi Picoult's bestselling novel My Sister's Keeper [2]. Where Diaz seems slightly too young (and not mom-ish) to play the girls' mother, Alec Baldwin seems older than what I'd envisioned to play the part of the attorney.

His character is the lawyer who "represents a child (Elle Fanning) after she sues her parents for emancipation on the grounds they bred her to be a genetic match who could prolong the life of her cancer-ridden sister (Dakota Fanning). The girl's mother (Diaz) is a former trial lawyer and represents herself in court."

I figured this character might be somewhat gruff and I think Baldwin can easily pull that off, but I'd also thought he would be young and dashing. My casting choice [3] was Jon Hamm [4] who recently played Don Draper on Mad Men [5]. What do you think about the casting choice of Alec Baldwin?

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