Lucy Punch : Woody Allen chooses Lucy Punch for Nicole Kidman’s role

Woody Allen has offered Nicole Kidman’s role to Lucy punch for his next project . Kidman who is busy shooting for her movie Rabbit Hole had taken up the role in Woody Allen’s flick in March and vacated weeks later because of a scheduling conflic

British actress Lucy Punch has replaced Nicole Kidman in the new Woody Allen film, it has emerged.

The relative unknown impressed the writer-director with a screen test and, thereby, secured the role that Kidman was to do , reports The China Daily.

Punch, who starred on the CBS series “The Class” and had roles in “Hot Fuzz” and “Ella Enchanted,” joins Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin and Anthony Hopkins in the untitled project.

The film will shoot in London in the summer.