Country star LeAnn Rimes is going to star as heroine Meg Galloway in the Lifetime TV adaptation of Nora Roberts’ Northern Lights.
According to People magazine, Rimes is very excited about the role, but also aware of the sudden fascination with women from Alaska:
Rimes will play Meg Galloway, a feisty bush pilot who knows how to handle a gun, living in tiny Lunacy, Alaska – though comparisons to Sarah Palin should not be drawn.
“Funny timing, I know,” Rimes said with a smile. “But the similarities end there. Meg Galloway is a very young and single woman.”
She’s also a bush pilot, a hell of a shot with a rifle, and takes no crap from anyone. Interesting casting choice since I always envisioned Meg as similar to the character she most reminded me of: Maggie O’Connell from Northern Exposure.
I’ve never seen Rimes acting, though, damn, can the woman sing, so I’ll set the DVR to record it when it’s on. But I admit: I have my reservations. Her IMDB filmography seems to indicate she’s appeared as a performer on a variety of programs, and she’s done a “one of” appearance on Days of Our Lives. But I don’t see a lot of full-on movie acting roles. I hope she pulls it off – this is one of my favorite Roberts’ books. Even if the paperback is in the inconvenient venti size.