Ed Westwick: Romeo & Juliet's Tybalt!

Ed Westwick is taking on another bad boy role!

The 23-year-old actor, who plays Chuck Bass on Gossip Girl, is in final negotiations to star as Tybalt in a new adaptation of Shakespeare‘s Romeo and Juliet, Variety‘s Showblitz reports.

Hailee Steinfeld will take on the role of Juliet and Saving Grace‘s Holly Hunter will play The Nurse.

The role of Romeo has yet to be cast.

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