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THR sends word that Israeli actress Liraz Charhi has been cast in Fair Game, an upcoming thriller by Doug Liman.

The film follows former real-life CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson (Naomi Watts) whose status as an operative was severely compromised when the Bush administration leaked her identity. This happened due to an editorial that Plame’s husband, ambassador Joseph Wilson (played by Sean Penn), wrote saying the administration doctored intelligence on Iraq to make a case for war.

Charhi will play the role of Sawsan, an Iraqi doctor living in Cleveland who Plame sends to Baghdad to help gather intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program.

It is currently being shot in New York and the Middle East.

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Very recent Oscar winner Sean Penn is in talks  to play Ambassador Joseph Wilson for the movie Fair Game, the drama about the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. Naomi Watts is already set to star as the CIA agent with director Doug Liman (Mrs. and Mrs. Smith.)

According to Variety, Ambassador Wilson watched his wife’s CIA status become compromised after he wrote op-ed columns that accused the Bush Administration of manipulating intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.

The movie will be based on Plame Wilson’s memoir.

As the headlines reported, Plame Wilson left the CIA in 2005 and she and her husband filed a civil suit against Vice President Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Cheney’s ex-chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby. Rove and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage admitted they leaked her agency status to journalists. Yet, Libby was convicted of lying to a federal grand jury about his role in compromising her covert status, according to Variety.

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