When the play by Yasmina Reza ran on Broadway in 2009-10, it originally starred Hope Davis in Ms. Winslet's role with James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden and Jeff Daniels.
WSJ: Kate Winslet On Playing One of Four Caged Animals in Carnage
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Film director Roman Polanski had invited him to a snazzy cafe to talk more about adapting his Tony Award-nominated play "Venus in Fur" into a movie when the pair spotted the chic "God of Carnage" playwright Yasmina Reza sitting with a distinguished-looking gentleman.
WSJ: Playwright David Ives finds his timing perfectly