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[stuffnnonsense]

Saw this in the paper today

The film’s casting executives are looking for brothers and sisters (cousins could be in the mix, too) to play the Oblonskys’ five children, who range in age from two to eight. The groupings must include a girl of around eight to play Tanya, the Oblonskys’ eldest daughter.
‘We want to capture that messy charm that comes with big families,’ Dixie Chassay, one of the executives, explained.
‘Dolly’s always pregnant. It’s always about family, and we want to capture that with brothers and sisters and cousins who play and are noisy and who laugh together.
‘Then there’s the son Keira has with Jude,’ Dixie continued, meaning their fictional child Seryozha.
The boy should be aged between seven and ten. ‘We are in the world of Tolstoy, so we need someone poetic,’ Dixie noted.
Ideally, for all of the kids’ roles, the casting people want to meet European (particularly French and Russian) siblings or cousins, although all must be able to speak English. They’d also look at children from large English families (the traditional kind you might see in the Bystander section of Tatler).
Please contact Dixie Chassay’s assistant, Isabella Odoffin, at assistantdixiechassay@gmail.com with any questions or ideas relating to the casting of children.

[charlotterose]

I saw some info on this on screenterrier, so you should look on there, but I think they want 5 actual siblings (or cousins) and one has to be a young girl.

[sophiesocks]

i got excited when i first read this, i have 4 children ranging from 2-10 and we could borrow a cousin! however my oldest girl is 5 so i figure that rules us out. however, i will submit ds for the role of the 8-10 yo son of jude law and keira knightly, fingers crossed that he gets asked to audition!