It’s battle of the Eponine hopefuls for The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper’s big-screen version of Les Miserables, according to the New York Post.

The shortlist of Eponines – the character who sings the showstopper “On My Own”—consists of Broadway baby and Glee star Lea Michele (who played young Cosette on Broadway pre-Glee, when she was a kid), Scarlett Johansson (who’s released an album), Evan Rachel Wood (of Across The Universe singing splendor, and who has lately been proving her vocal chops in YouTube appearances) and country pop darling Taylor Swift, who picks up mounting awards, accolades, and platinum records with every album.

Lea “knocked it out of the park” according to a source close to the film (take that for what it’s worth) but the others also bring their own strengths to the role. Apparently, Scarlett leads in “acting ability,” while Evan brings her “indie cred.” The anonymous source doesn’t name exactly what T-Swift would bring to the table, but alludes to the allure of the pop princess making a major shift to movies. It worked pretty well for Whitney Houston, for a decade there.

The cast is already filling up with major talents: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne and Geoffrey Rush have all signed on to the production.

While the entire NY Post piece sounds like the musings of a tween fangirl, with a show queen and some slightly older fangirls on staff, we couldn’t resist a game of ‘let’s cast Eponine.’ We’ve included the supposed frontrunners and a few of our favorite actresses with vocal chops in the poll.

Ladies…

You can vote for her here: click!

Source: shewired

Congrats to Sara on her engagement to Ryan Debolt!

Latosha from the official fan club wanted me to post some news here too so here’s her bit:

On August 31 st , Sara will celebrate her 36 th birthday. To commemorate the occasion, the Sara Ramirez Fan Club will be giving Sara a birthday party!! Or at least a virtual one…

Sara is incredibly generous and passionate about the causes she cares about and none are closer to her heart than the Al D. Rodriguez Liver Foundation (ADRLF). To wish Sara a very Happy Birthday, the SRFC is holding a donation drive in support of the foundation. The SRFC is collecting contributions from now until August 25th, at which time we will send off our donation to the ADRLF. Also, the donation total and names of all donors will be gathered and sent to Sara with our birthday wishes.

Donations large or small are welcome and can be made via the SRFC’s PayPal account. Please keep in mind that PayPal takes a small deduction for every transaction, which will subsequently reduce the amount of your donation. Updates on the progress of our donation drive will be posted weekly in the SRFC forum, as well as on Facebook and Twitter.

Again any size donation is welcomed and appreciated, but let’s go BIG and have our presence felt by Sara and the foundation. If we all work together, we can send off a HUGE donation as a birthday gift to Sara.

So let’s celebrate Sara’s birthday and send her the BEST. BIRTHDAY. GIFT. EVER!!

So head over to HTTP://SaraRamirezFans.com to get the birthday gift going! All pictures and more news will be posted tomorrow and once again I am sorry!

E! News Interview:

Good Morning America:

Jimmy Kimel Live:
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Sara has now released her EP! For just $3.99 you can own 4 songs of which they are titled Break My Heart, Waitin, Eye to Eye and The Story. You can go buy them at iTunes HERE.

It’s an amazing EP and has received positive feedback, as well as that three of the songs have been confirmed to feature on the musical episode of Grey’s Anatomy.

On battling depression: At one point, Ramirez could barely muster up the energy to get out of bed and go to the set of Grey’s “Somehow I managed to do it, but it wasn’t pretty. There were days that I would show up to work and come out the side of my face to people who didn’t deserve it.”

On body issues: “There’s a whole list of things you could worry about. Are you skinny enough? Talented enough? In all kinds of ways, I used to be really, really hard on myself.”

On Grey’s Anatomy troubled past: “[I found myself] in the midst of a hurricane. So much time on Grey’s was spent just trying to figure out what kind of family I was walking into. There was so much drama and so much time wasted focusing on the wrong things.”

On being different: “I’ve never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it’s my responsibility and my choice to live my life that way.”

We also have uploaded a HQ version of the Cover! Enjoy!

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